store

A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.

Noun

  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.
    • And his subjects wrung all they could wring Out of temple and palace and store. - 1936, Robert Frost, “The Vindictives”, in A Further Range:

    Synonyms: storeroom stockroom warehouse magazine

  2. A supply held in storage.
    • 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.

    Synonyms: stock supply cache stash

  3. 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...
    • In 1866 Colonel J. F. 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...

    Synonyms: shop store retail store retail outlet

    Hypernyms: establishment place

  4. 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, […],...
  6. Ellipsis of store cattle beast: a head of store cattle (feeder cattle to be sold to others for finishing).
    • heifers and stores
    • She saw that there were cattle grazing on two of the fields between her and the river. Whether they were the fields next to the bank she could not be sure, because she could not see the river itself, but from the...

    Hypernyms: cattle beast cow animal creature

Origin

From Middle English store, stoure, storre, from Anglo-Norman stor, estore, estorr, estoer, and Old French estour, estor, from Latin īnstaurō.

Forms

stores

Related

storage

Derived

ABC store anchor store antiques store antique store app store backstore big-box store bill of store bin store book store bookstore bottle store box store buddy store busy as a dyke in a hardware store candy store candy store problem chain store cigar store Indian columnstore company store company-store convenience store cool store

Verb

  1. 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...
    • Following allocation to Toton on January 1 1996, it stayed there until transferral to Crewe in November 2000, before being stored at Eastleigh on December 17 the same year. - 2024 January 10, Chris Gilson, “RAIL's...

    Coordinate Terms: lay aside lay away lay by lay in lay up put aside put away put by save store away store up

  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. To write (something) into memory or registers.
    • This operation stores the result on the stack.
  5. 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...
    • 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...
    • I have eaten my fill, and had my pockets well stored. - 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 8, page 244:

Forms

stores storing stored no-table-tags glossary store storest storedst storeth -

Derived

misstore nonstored overstore prestored restore storable store away storer store up understored unstored warm store