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store

UK/stɔː//stɔɹ/

store noun: a place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept. Also the ellipsis of store cattle beast.

store: a place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept
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Noun

store (plural stores)

  1. A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.
    • Near-synonyms: storeroom, stockroom, warehouse, magazine (archaic)
    • This building used to be a store for old tires.
  2. A supply held in storage.
    • Near-synonyms: stock, supply; cache, stash
    • They keep a store of canned goods in their basement.
    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.
    • There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store, an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […].”1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in Twelve O'Clock
    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
    • With store of Ladies, whose bright eies
      Rain influence, and judge the prise
      Of Wit, or Arms, while both contend
      To win her Grace, whom all commend.a. 1645, John Milton, “L’Allegro”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC

Verb

store (third-person singular simple present stores, present participle storing, simple past and past participle stored)

  1. (transitive) To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.
    • I'll store these books in the attic.
    • The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
  2. To contain.
    • The cabinets store all the food the mice would like.
  3. Have the capacity and capability to contain.
    • They sell boxes that store 24 mason jars.
  4. (transitive) To write (something) into memory or registers.
    • This operation stores the result on the stack.
  5. (transitive) To stock, to fill (a container, repository, etc.) with things.
    • ON the Weſt of Tebeth lies the Province of Kaindu ᵈ, under its own Kings, till conquered by the Khân. It contains many Cities ; the Capital is of the ſame Name, and ſtands in the Entrance of the Province. Here is a great Salt-Lake, ſtored with Fiſh, and ſo affluent in Pearls, that they would be of...1747, A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels, volume IV, London: Thomas Astley, →OCLC, page 594, columns 1–2
    • His great passion was for hearing stories, and whenever he met any one who was well stored, he never let him go till he had heard them all.1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 287

Also used as

store is also the ellipsis of store cattle beast.

store meaning in Hindi, Assamese, Arabic and Persian

store in Hindi

place where items may be kept
कोश koś

store in Assamese

place where items may be kept
ভঁৰাল bhõral

store in Arabic

keep (something) while not in use
خَزَنَ ḵazana

store in Persian

supply held in storage
ذَخیرِه zaxire, سِتَنْج setanj

Examples of store in a sentence

  • They could eat from their stores for a month or two if need be.
  • But there was an infinite store of mercy in those eyes, for him too a word of pardon even though he had erred and sinned and wandered.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[13]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC:
  • By late summer a sufficient store of stone had accumulated, and then the building began[…], under the superintendence of the pigs.1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […]...
  • What surprised us all was how Will's lighthearted nature and constant store of good humor won over one of the great heiresses of King Henry's court, Anne Bourchier.2006, Carolly Erickson, The Last Wife of Henry VIII:
  • Meline noted that the rebozo had almost disappeared in Santa Fe and that hoop skirts, on sale in the stores, were being widely used.1948, Carey McWilliams, North from Mexico: The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 75:

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Synonyms of store

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  • retail outlet

All synonyms of store

Forms of store

Noun
pluralstores
Verb
third-person singular presentstores
present participlestoring
past participlestored
paststored
second-person singular present (archaic)storest
second-person singular past (archaic)storedst
third-person singular present (archaic)storeth

Past tense of store: stored

Plural of store: stores

Origin of store

Inherited from Middle English store, borrowed from Anglo-Norman stor, from Latin īnstaurāre, from īnstaurō + -āre.

Words formed from store

Phrases with store

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Words that rhyme with store

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Questions about store

What does store mean?
Store means a place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.
What is store in Hindi?
Store in Hindi is कोश (koś). See Store meaning in Hindi.
How do you use store in a sentence?
They could eat from their stores for a month or two if need be.
What part of speech is store?
Store can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce store?
Store is pronounced /stɔː/ (UK).
What is the plural of store?
The plural of store is stores.

Words near store in the dictionary

  1. Storchs
  2. Storck
  3. Storcks
  4. Stordahl
  5. Stordahls
  6. store
  7. store and forward
  8. store away
  9. store brand
  10. store brands
  11. store card

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