storehouse
Syllables: store·house/ˈstɔː(ɹ)haʊs/
storehouse noun: a building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions.
Noun
storehouse (plural storehouses)
- A building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions.
- (obsolete)
- Jacobsen's theory about the empty storehouse is still valid, for a myth never has one meaning only; a myth is a polyphonic fugue of many voices.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 175
- Synonyms:
- magazine, repository, warehouse, depository, conservatory
- 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.
- Three days passed. Carrados was not unendurably bored, for his mind was an inexhaustible storehouse […]1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries
- 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
Verb
storehouse (third-person singular simple present storehouses, present participle storehousing, simple past and past participle storehoused)
- To lay up in store.
- the mental storehousing of information
storehouse meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
storehouse in Hindi
- storehouse, warehouse, magazine
- भंडार bhaṇḍār
- storehouse, granary
- कुठियार kuṭhiyār
- storehouse, pantry
- कोष्ठक koṣṭhak
- storehouse, granary, treasury
- भंडारा bhaṇḍārā
storehouse in Tamil
- சேமிக்கும் இடம்
storehouse in Urdu
- storehouse
- ذخیرہ zaxerah
storehouse in Bengali
- গুদামঘর, ভাণ্ডার
More languagesFewer languages
- storehouse in Telugu
- కొట్టు koṭṭu, ఉగ్రాణము ugrāṇamu
- storehouse in Malayalam
- കലവറ kalavaṟa
- storehouse in Kannada
- ಉಗ್ರಾಣ, ಭಂಡಾರ, ಕಣಜ
- storehouse in Punjabi
- ਕੋਠਾ koṭhā, ਕੋੱਠਾ koṭṭhā
Examples of storehouse in a sentence
- The global library of ice has become a cracked kist, a broken storehouse leaking its contents.
- Several of the men in Alimacani retrieved from a storehouse the tool they used to catch alligators.
- To glaciologists and climatologists, they are storehouses of the Earth's former atmospheres.
Synonyms of storehouse
Forms of storehouse
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | storehouses |
| alternative form (archaic) | store-house |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | storehouses |
| present participle | storehousing |
| past participle | storehoused |
| past | storehoused |
Origin of storehouse
From store + house.
Words formed from storehouse
Phrases with storehouse
Questions about storehouse
- What does storehouse mean?
- Storehouse means a building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions.
- What is storehouse in Hindi?
- Storehouse in Hindi is भंडार (bhaṇḍār), कुठियार (kuṭhiyār), कोष्ठक (koṣṭhak). See Storehouse meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is storehouse?
- Storehouse can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce storehouse?
- Storehouse is pronounced /ˈstɔː(ɹ)haʊs/.
- What is the plural of storehouse?
- The plural of storehouse is storehouses.
Words near storehouse in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: storehouse (page history and authors); कुठियार (Hindi) (page history and authors); storehouse (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ذخیرہ (Urdu) (page history and authors); storehouse (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ఉగ్రాణము (Telugu) (page history and authors); കലവറ (Malayalam) (page history and authors); storehouse (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਕੋਠਾ (Punjabi) (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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