Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A place or building in which goods are stored; a warehouse.
- n. An abundant source or supply: a storehouse of knowledge.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A house in which things are stored; a building for the storing of grain, food-stuffs, or goods of any kind; a magazine; a repository; a warehouse; a store.
- n. A store; a plentiful supply.
Wiktionary
- n. A building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions; a magazine; a repository; a warehouse.
- n. by extension A single non-geographical place where a large quantity of something can be found.
- n. obsolete A mass or quality laid up.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions; a magazine; a repository; a warehouse.
- n. obsolete A mass or quality laid up.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a depository for goods
Etymologies
- store + house (Wiktionary)
Examples
“In the storehouse is a box of explosives Telders recovered from the old Norwegian research hut while his team was assembling the Array.”
“The glories of London, which he calls the storehouse and mart of all Europe, and the excellence of”
“Intermediate long-term storehouse Connectors for storehouse filling.”
“And you can’t really ‘protein up’ the way you can carb up because there is really no short term storehouse for protein other than glycogen.”
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“On the first floor of the storehouse was the journeymen's workroom.”
“To return to the farm: the storehouse was a long red half-timbered building, where the hides were hung on rails to dry, their corners pegged out with wooden sticks.”
“A storehouse was the first building put up by the commission, at a cost of $4,200; then a carpenter shop at a cost of $3,800.”
“Those are rooms known as the storehouse, in one of which dear old”
The old plantation : how we lived in great house and cabin before the war,
“He has laid up the supply of all our need in the storehouse, which is”
“-- A fortnight later candles are wholly wanting in certain quarters, except in the section storehouse, which is almost empty, each person being allowed only one.”
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