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sto

sto is the pronunciation spelling of store.

Meaning of store

Noun

store (plural stores)

  1. A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.
    • Near-synonyms: storeroom, stockroom, warehouse, magazine (archaic)
  2. A supply held in storage.
    • Near-synonyms: stock, supply; cache, stash
    Synonyms:
    stock, supply, cache, stash
  3. (North-American, mainly) A building (or portion thereof) where items may be purchased.
    • Dad went to the store to get milk and bread.
    Synonyms:
    shop, retail store, retail outlet
  4. (dated) Memory.
    • The main store of 1000 36-bit words seemed large at the time.
  5. A great quantity or number; abundance.
    • I make my love engrafted to this store.1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 37”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC

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Noun capitalized: STO

STO (uncountable)

  1. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of Surface-to-Orbit.
    1. Planetary defense systems that can target starships in orbit, to defend against orbital bombardment.

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Phrases with sto

Questions about sto

What does sto mean?
Sto means planetary defense systems that can target starships in orbit, to defend against orbital bombardment.
What is sto the pronunciation spelling of?
Sto is the pronunciation spelling of store.
What part of speech is sto?
Sto is a noun.

Words near sto in the dictionary

  1. STMs
  2. stn
  3. stn.
  4. stns
  5. stns.
  6. sto
  7. Sto:lo
  8. stoa
  9. stoae
  10. stoag
  11. stoagie

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sto (page history and authors); STO (page history and authors); store (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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