storage

Syllables: stor·ageUK/ˈstɔː.ɹɪd͡ʒ//ˈstɔɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/

storage noun: the act of storing goods; the state of being stored.

Noun

storage (usually uncountable, plural storages)

(usually) The act of storing goods; the state of being stored.
- There's a lot of storage in the loft.
(countable, usually) An object or place in which something is stored.
- Melbourne's water storages plunged by 0.7 per cent in a week, down to 33.1 per cent capacity, as Victoria recorded its second-driest January on record.2009 February 1, Staff writers, “Fires rage as business counts cost”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 03 Feb 2009
- 2011 (2008), Wan Renpu, Petroleum Industry Press (translator), Advanced Well Completion Engineering, page 115,
  Underground natural gas storages are underground facilities for storing natural gas. At present, there are three types of underground natural gas storages worldwide, which include depleted...
(usually) Any computer device, including such as a disk, on which data is stored for a longer term than main memory.
- I′d recommend backing up these files to storage before reinstalling the operating system.
- Secondary storages are used to store system programs (viz; operating system, assembler, interpreter, compiler and so on), data files, software packages and so on.2007, Ramesh Bangia, Computer Fundamentals and Information Technology, India: Firewall Media, page 43
(usually) The price charged for storing goods.

Verb

storage (third-person singular simple present storages, present participle storaging, simple past and past participle storaged)

(transitive) To put into storage; to store.

storage meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Malayalam

storage in Hindi

act or state: भंडारण bhaṇḍāraṇ
place: गोदाम godām

storage in Tamil

சரக்கு சேமிப்பு முறை, சரக்கு வைப்பு முறை, சேமிப்புக் கூடம், கிடங்கு, சேமிப்பு, சேமித்து வைத்தல்

storage in Bengali

আধারে রাখা, আধারের ঘনমান, সঁচয়

storage in Malayalam

ശേഖരണം, കോശം, പണ്ടകശാലയുടെ വാടക

More languagesFewer languages

storage in Kannada: ಸೇರುವೆ, ಉಗ್ರಾಣ
storage in Sanskrit: स्थापन sthāpana
storage in Persian: حافظه hâfeze
storage in Thai: ที่เก็บข้อมูล tîi gèp kɔ̂ɔ muun
storage in Vietnamese: thiết bị lưu trữ

Examples of storage in a sentence

Completion of an identifiable stage of maintenance such as removing an aircraft engine for repair or storage.
Our cloud storage automatically syncs your files to all your devices.
The mass storage of the network consisted of 40 megabytes of Bernoulli boxes.

All 40 example sentences with storage

Forms of storage

Noun
plural	storages
Verb
third-person singular present	storages
present participle	storaging
past participle	storaged
past	storaged

Plural of storage: storages

Origin of storage

From store + -age.

Phrases with storage

12 more phrasesFewer phrases

Questions about storage

What does storage mean?: Storage means the act of storing goods; the state of being stored.
What is storage in Hindi?: Storage in Hindi is भंडारण (bhaṇḍāraṇ), गोदाम (godām). See Storage meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is storage?: Storage can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce storage?: Storage is pronounced /ˈstɔː.ɹɪd͡ʒ/ (UK).
What is the plural of storage?: The plural of storage is storages.

Words near storage in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: storage (page history and authors); storage (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); storage (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); storage (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); storage (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); स्थापन (Sanskrit) (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.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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