Store

/stɔː/ · noun

Meaning

A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept..

Definitions by Sense

1. A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.
2. A supply held in storage.
3. (mainly North American) A building (or portion thereof) where items may be purchased.
4. (computing, dated) Memory.
5. A great quantity or number; abundance.
6. Ellipsis of store cattle beast: a head of store cattle (feeder cattle to be sold to others for finishing).
7. (transitive) To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.
8. To contain.

Example Sentences

Near-synonyms: storeroom, stockroom, warehouse, magazine (archaic)

This building used to be a store for old tires.

And his subjects wrung all they could wring Out of temple and palace and store.

Near-synonyms: stock, supply; cache, stash

They keep a store of canned goods in their basement.

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.

By late summer a sufficient store of stone had accumulated, and then the building began[…], under the superintendence of the pigs.

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