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store·house

(stôr′hous′)

1. A place or building in which goods are stored; a warehouse.

2. An abundant source or supply: a storehouse of knowledge.

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storehouse

(ˈstɔːˌhaʊs)

a place where things are stored

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

store•house

(ˈstɔrˌhaʊs, ˈstoʊr-)

n., pl. -hous•es (-ˌhaʊ zɪz)

1. a building in which things are stored; warehouse.

2. a repository or source of abundant supplies, as of facts or knowledge.

[1300–50]

storehouse

magazine - Considered a "storehouse" for articles; the word comes from Arabic makhzan, "storehouse," and was first used in book titles presenting a "store" of information about specific topics.
ambry - Another word for a treasury, storehouse, place to keep things.
garner - Originally a storehouse or granary.
thesaurus - Comes from Greek thesauros, meaning "storehouse, treasury," and its original sense was "dictionary or encyclopedia," but this was narrowed to the current meaning with the appearance of Roget's in 1852.

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Noun

storehouse - a depository for goods; "storehouses were built close to the docks"

depot, entrepot, storage, store

depositary, depository, repository, deposit - a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping

dump - a place where supplies can be stored; "an ammunition dump"

garner, granary - a storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed

powder magazine, powder store, magazine - a storehouse (as a compartment on a warship) where weapons and ammunition are stored

railhead - a railroad depot in a theater of operations where military supplies are unloaded for distribution

treasure house - a storehouse for treasures

storage warehouse, warehouse - a storehouse for goods and merchandise

storehouse

noun warehouse, store, depot, depository, stockroom barns and storehouses

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

storehouse

noun

A place where something is deposited for safekeeping:

archive, depository, magazine, repository, store, warehouse.

Translations

skladiště

lager

Speicher

depósito

entrepôt office réserve

vörugeymsla

magazzino

lager

ambar depo

storehouse

[ˈstɔːhaʊs] N (storehouses (pl)) [ˈstɔːhaʊzɪz] → almacén m, depósito m (fig) → mina f, tesoro m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

storehouse

[ˈstɔː^rhaʊs] n

(= warehouse) → entrepôt m

[information, knowledge, memories] → banque f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

storehouse

[ˈstɔːˌhaʊs] n → magazzino, deposito

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

store

(stoː) noun

1. a supply of eg goods from which things are taken when required. They took a store of dried and canned food on the expedition; The quartermaster is the officer in charge of stores.

2. a (large) collected amount or quantity. He has a store of interesting facts in his head.

3. a place where a supply of goods etc is kept; a storehouse or storeroom. It's in the store(s).

4. a shop. The post office here is also the village store; a department store.

verb

1. to put into a place for keeping. We stored our furniture in the attic while the tenants used our house.

2. to stock (a place etc) with goods etc. The museum is stored with interesting exhibits.

ˈstorage (-ridʒ) noun

the act of storing or state of being stored. We've put our furniture into storage at a warehouse; The meat will have to be kept in cold storage (= stored under refrigeration).

ˈstorehouse, ˈstoreroom nouns

a place or room where goods etc are stored. There is a storeroom behind the shop.

in store

1. kept or reserved for future use. I keep plenty of tinned food in store for emergencies.

2. coming in the future. There's trouble in store for her!

set (great) store by

to value highly (eg a person's approval etc).

store up

to collect and keep (for future need). I don't know why she stores up all those old magazines.

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He had charge of a small clay storehouse with a dried-grass roof, and pretended to keep a correct account of beads, cotton cloth, red kerchiefs, brass wire, and other trade goods it contained.

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All hands now set to work cutting down trees, clearing away thickets, and marking out the place for the residence, storehouse, and powder magazine, which were to be built of logs and covered with bark.

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And this is my own opinion; for, where he could and should give freedom to his pen in praise of so worthy a knight, he seems to me deliberately to pass it over in silence; which is ill done and worse contrived, for it is the business and duty of historians to be exact, truthful, and wholly free from passion, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor love, should make them swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, rival of time, storehouse of deeds, witness for the past, example and counsel for the present, and warning for the future.

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It is perhaps because Morte d'Arthur is easily read that it has become a storehouse, a treasure-book, to which other writers have gone and from which they have taken stories and woven them afresh and given them new life.

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The first thing I did of moment after having gotten all our goods on shore, and placed them in a storehouse, or warehouse, which, with a lodging, we hired at the small place or village where we landed--I say, the first thing was to inquire after my mother, and after my brother (that fatal person whom I married as a husband, as I have related at large).

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Catherine heard, admired, and wondered with more genuine feeling than before -- gathered all that she could from this storehouse of knowledge, by running over the titles of half a shelf, and was ready to proceed.

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The poem of [98] "Resolution and Independence" is a storehouse of such records; for its fulness of lovely imagery it may be compared to Keats's "Saint Agnes' Eve." To read one of his greater pastoral poems for the first time is like a day spent in a new country; the memory is crowded for a while with its precise and vivid incidents:--

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He thought about the warning of the old witch-doctor before he fell asleep and he thought of it again after he awoke; but he did not turn back for he was unafraid, though had he known what lay in store for one he loved most in all the world he would have flown through the trees to her side and allowed the gold of Opar to remain forever hidden in its forgotten storehouse.

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Nobility is great, art is great, genius is great, but the key to the pleasure storehouse of the world is a key of gold - of gold!"

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The guests found her sweet and unassuming, laughing, vivacious and a never exhausted storehouse of quaint and interesting jungle lore.

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I will take you to the great sights of the Parisians at the storehouse of Rully.

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His education progressed; but his greatest finds were in the inexhaustible storehouse of the huge illustrated dictionary, for he learned more through the medium of pictures than text, even after he had grasped the significance of the bugs.