# 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: /stoɹ/
* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: stô, IPA: /stɔː/
* (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: stōr, IPA: /sto(ː)ɹ/
* (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA: /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
* drugstore
* drug store
* dump store
* e-store
* flat store
* free store
* friendship store
* funeral 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 in
* PX store
* record store
* sari-sari store
* second-hand store
* set store by
* shoe store
* specialty store
* state store
* still 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
* store window
* ten-cent store
* thrift store
* variety store
* vintage store
* warehouse store
* wide column store

#### Related terms

* storage

#### Descendants

* Tok Pisin: stua
** → Rotokas: sitoa
* → Afrikaans: stoor
* → Cantonese: 士多 (si$^6$ do$^1$)
* → Irish: stór
* → Kashubian: sztor (Canada, United States, New Zealand)
* → Southern Ndebele: isitolo
* → Zulu: isitolo

#### 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

* store away
* store up

#### Translations
### References

* “store”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
* store on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Store in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

### Anagrams

* torse, resto, tores, toers, estro-, roset, Soter, Resto, sorte, rotes, estro, Oster

## Danish
### Adjective

store
* definite of stor
* plural of stor

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

store
* (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of storen

### Anagrams

* roest, roste, stoer

## French
### Etymology

From Latin storea (“mat”), via regional Italian stora (modern Italian stuoia).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /stɔʁ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

store m (plural stores)
* blind, shade (for a window)

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: estor
* → Galician: estor
* → German: Store
* → Portuguese: estore
* → Bulgarian: щора (štora)

### 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

* resto, rotes, sorte, tores, torse

## Latvian
### Noun

store f (5th declension)
* sturgeon

#### Declension
## Middle English
### Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman stor, estour, ultimately from Latin instaurare. Compare warnestore.

#### Alternative forms

* stor, stoure, storre, stour, stoor, stoore

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /stɔːr/

#### Noun

store (uncountable)
* supplies, provisions
* livestock, farm animals
* (stored) possessions, savings
* collection, storage
* storehouse, storeroom
* value, importance

##### Descendants

* English: store
* Scots: store
* → Welsh: stôr

##### 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

* stoor, stour, stur, sture, storre, stowre, stoore, stoure

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /stoːr/, /stuːr/, /stɔːr/

#### Adjective

store
* strong, powerful, intense
* violent, threatening, imposing
* stern, sharp, harsh
* numerous, large in number
* large, big, great
* coarse, rough

##### Descendants

* English: stoor, stour (archaic)
* Scots: stour, stoure, sture, stoor, stoar

##### References

* “stọ̄r(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.

#### Adverb

store
* violently, threateningly, imposingly
* sternly, sharply, harshly

##### 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

* stor, stoure

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /stoːr/

#### Noun

store
* incense, frankincense, storax

##### References

* “stọ̄r(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Adjective

store
* definite singular of stor
* plural of stor

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Adjective

store
* definite singular of stor
* plural of stor

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

store
* definite natural masculine singular of stor

### Anagrams

* orets, rotes, teros