store
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: stô
ipa: /stɔː/
enpr: stôr
ipa: /stɔɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: stōr
ipa: /sto(ː)ɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /stoə/
homophone: stower stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: stores
Etymology: From Middle English store, stoure, storre, from Anglo-Norman stor, estore, estorr, estoer, and Old French estour, estor, from Latin īnstaurō.
Senses: examples: text: This building used to be a store for old tires.
text: And his subjects wrung all they could wring
Out of temple and palace and store.
ref: 1936, Robert Frost, “The Vindictives”, in A Further Range:
glosses: A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[13]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: By late summer a sufficient store of stone had accumulated, and then the building began[…], under the superintendence of the pigs.
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 2006, Carolly Erickson, The Last Wife of Henry VIII:
glosses: A supply held in storage.
examples: text: I need to get some milk from the grocery store.
text: 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 […].”
ref: 1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in Twelve O'Clock:
text: 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.
ref: 1948, Carey McWilliams, North from Mexico: The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 75:
glosses: A place where items may be purchased; a shop.
examples: text: The main store of 1000 36-bit words seemed large at the time.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Memory.
examples: text: I make my love engrafted to this store.
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: a. 1645, John Milton, “L’Allegro”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC:
glosses: A great quantity or number; abundance.
glosses: A head of store cattle (feeder cattle to be sold to others for finishing); a store cattle beast.
Synonyms: sense: supply held in storage
word: stock
sense: supply held in storage
word: supply
word: boutique
raw_tags: from which items may be purchased
word: shop
word: retail store
sense: in computing
word: memory
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: anchor store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: antiques store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: antique store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: app store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: big-box store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: bill of store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: bin store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: book store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: bottle store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: box store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: buddy store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: busy as a dyke in a hardware store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: candy store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: candy store problem
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: chain store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: cigar store Indian
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: company store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: company-store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: convenience store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: cool store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: corner store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: country store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: craft store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: c-store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: dark store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: data store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: departmental store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: department store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: dime store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: discount store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: dollar store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: drug store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: drugstore
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: dump store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: e-store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: flat store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: free store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: friendship store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: funeral store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: gag store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: general store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: give away the store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: give the store away
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: grocery store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: hardware store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: industrial store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: in store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: in-store picking
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: lay store by
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: liquor store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: load-store architecture
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: marine store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: mind the store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: next store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: package store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: party store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: pet store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: pizza store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: pop-up store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: put store by
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: put store in
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: PX store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: record store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: sari-sari store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: second-hand store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: set store by
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: shoe store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: specialty store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: state store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: still store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: sto
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: storage
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: store and forward
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: store-bought
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: storebought
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: store-boughten
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: store brand
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: store cheese
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: store cupboard
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: store detective
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: store farm
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: storefront
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: store-goer
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: storehouse
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: storekeeper
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: store manager
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: store of value
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: store picking
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: storeroom
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: store window
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: ten-cent store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: thrift store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: variety store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: vintage store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: warehouse store
sense: Terms derived from store (noun)
word: wide column store
Related terms: storage