store
English
Etymology
From Middle English store, stoure, storre, from Anglo-Norman stor, estore, estorr, estoer, and Old French estour, estor, from Latin īnstaurō.
Pronunciation
- (General American) enPR: stôr, IPA(key): /stɔɹ/
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: stô, IPA(key): /stɔː/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: stōr, IPA(key): /sto(ː)ɹ/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /stoə/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
- Homophone: stower (in some accents)
Noun
store (plural stores)
- A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.
- This building used to be a store for old tires.
- 1936, Robert Frost, “The Vindictives”, in A Further Range:
- And his subjects wrung all they could wring
Out of temple and palace and store.
- A supply held in storage.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[13]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
- 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.
- 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
- By late summer a sufficient store of stone had accumulated, and then the building began […] , under the superintendence of the pigs.
- 2006, Carolly Erickson, The Last Wife of Henry VIII:
- 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.
- (mainly North American) A place where items may be purchased; a shop.
- I need to get some milk from the grocery store.
- 1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in Twelve O'Clock:
- 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 […] .”
- 1948, Carey McWilliams, North from Mexico: The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 75:
- 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.
- (computing, dated) Memory.
- The main store of 1000 36-bit words seemed large at the time.
- A great quantity or number; abundance.
- 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:
- I make my love engrafted to this store.
- a. 1645, John Milton, “L’Allegro”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →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 head of store cattle (feeder cattle to be sold to others for finishing); a store cattle beast.
Synonyms
- (supply held in storage): stock, supply
- (place from which items may be purchased): boutique, shop (UK); see also Thesaurus:retail store
- (in computing): memory
Derived terms
- anchor store
- antiques store
- antique store
- app store
- bill of store
- bin store
- book store
- bottle store
- buddy store
- busy as a dyke in a hardware store
- candy store
- candy store problem
- chain store
- cigar store Indian
- company store
- company-store
- convenience store
- cool store
- corner store
- country store
- craft store
- c-store
- dark store
- data store
- departmental store
- department store
- dime store
- discount store
- dollar store
- drug store
- drugstore
- e-store
- flat store
- friendship store
- gag store
- general store
- give away the store
- give the store away
- grocery store
- hardware store
- industrial store
- in store
- lay store by
- liquor store
- load-store architecture
- marine store
- mind the store
- next store
- package store
- party store
- pet store
- pizza store
- pop-up store
- put store by
- put store by
- put store in
- record store
- sari-sari store
- set store by
- shoe store
- specialty store
- state store
- sto
- storage
- store and forward
- store-bought
- storebought
- store-boughten
- store brand
- store cheese
- store cupboard
- store detective
- store farm
- storefront
- store-goer
- storehouse
- storekeeper
- store manager
- store of value
- storeroom
- ten-cent store
- thrift store
- variety store
- warehouse store
- wide column store
Related terms
Descendants
Translations
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Verb
store (third-person singular simple present stores, present participle storing, simple past and past participle stored)
- (transitive) To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.
- Coordinate terms: lay aside, lay away, lay by, lay in, lay up, put aside, put away, put by, save, store away, store up
- I'll store these books in the attic.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
- 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.
- 2024 January 10, Chris Gilson, “RAIL's famous five...”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 27:
- 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.
- To contain.
- The cabinets store all the food the mice would like.
- Have the capacity and capability to contain.
- They sell boxes that store 24 mason jars.
- (transitive, computing) To write (something) into memory or registers.
- This operation stores the result on the stack.
- (transitive) To stock, to fill (a container, repository, etc.) with things.
- 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 8, page 244:
- I have eaten my fill, and had my pockets well stored.
Derived terms
Translations
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References
- “store”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
store on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Store in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Anagrams
Danish
Adjective
store
Dutch
Pronunciation
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Verb
store
Anagrams
French
Etymology
From Latin storea (“mat”), via regional Italian stora (modern Italian stuoia).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
store m (plural stores)
Descendants
References
- ^ Etymology and history of “store”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Further reading
- “store”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Latvian
Noun
store f (5th declension)
Declension
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Anglo-Norman stor, estour, ultimately from Latin instaurare. Compare warnestore.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
store (uncountable)
- supplies, provisions
- livestock, farm animals
- (stored) possessions, savings
- collection, storage
- storehouse, storeroom
- value, importance
Descendants
References
- “stōr(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.
Etymology 2
From Old English stōr and Old Norse stórr, from Proto-Germanic *stōraz; some forms are also influenced by Middle Dutch stuur.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Adjective
store
- strong, powerful, intense
- violent, threatening, imposing
- stern, sharp, harsh
- numerous, large in number
- large, big, great
- coarse, rough
Descendants
References
- “stọ̄r(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.
Adverb
store
References
- “stọ̄re, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.
Etymology 3
From Old English stōr; possibly from a Celtic language.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
store
References
- “stọ̄r(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.
Norwegian Bokmål
Adjective
store
Norwegian Nynorsk
Adjective
store
Swedish
Pronunciation
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Adjective
store
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- en:Shops
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- lv:Fish
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- enm:Buildings
- enm:Livestock
- enm:Rooms
- enm:Size
- enm:Trading
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