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store-house

store-house is the archaic form of storehouse.

Meaning of storehouse

Noun

storehouse (plural storehouses)

  1. A building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions.
    • (obsolete)
  2. (broadly, figuratively) A single location or resource where a large quantity of something can be found.
    • This old book is a genuine storehouse of useful cooking tips.
  3. (obsolete) A mass or quantity laid up.
    • enrich the storehouse of his powerfull wit1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC

See all 4 meanings of storehouse

Forms of store-house

pluralstore-houses

Questions about store-house

What is store-house the archaic form of?
Store-house is the archaic form of storehouse.

Words near store-house in the dictionary

  1. store windows
  2. store-bought
  3. store-boughten
  4. store-goer
  5. store-goers
  6. store-house
  7. store-houses
  8. store-room
  9. store-rooms
  10. storeback
  11. storebacks

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