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Store   /stɔr/   Listen
noun
Store  n.  
1.
That which is accumulated, or massed together; a source from which supplies may be drawn; hence, an abundance; a great quantity, or a great number. "The ships are fraught with store of victuals." "With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and give the prize."
2.
A place of deposit for goods, esp. for large quantities; a storehouse; a warehouse; a magazine.
3.
Any place where goods are sold, whether by wholesale or retail; a shop. (U.S. & British Colonies)
4.
pl. Articles, especially of food, accumulated for some specific object; supplies, as of provisions, arms, ammunition, and the like; as, the stores of an army, of a ship, of a family. "His swine, his horse, his stoor, and his poultry."
In store, in a state of accumulation; in keeping; hence, in a state of readiness. "I have better news in store for thee."
Store clothes, clothing purchased at a shop or store; in distinction from that which is home-made. (Colloq. U.S.)
Store pay, payment for goods or work in articles from a shop or store, instead of money. (U.S.)
To set store by, to value greatly; to have a high appreciation of.
To tell no store of, to make no account of; to consider of no importance.
Synonyms: Fund; supply; abundance; plenty; accumulation; provision. Store, Shop. The English call the place where goods are sold (however large or splendid it may be) a shop, and confine the word store to its original meaning; viz., a warehouse, or place where goods are stored. In America the word store is applied to all places, except the smallest, where goods are sold. In some British colonies the word store is used as in the United States. "In his needy shop a tortoise hung, An alligator stuffed, and other skins Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves A beggarly account of empty boxes." "Sulphurous and nitrous foam,... Concocted and adjusted, they reduced To blackest grain, and into store conveyed."


verb
Store  v. t.  (past & past part. stored; pres. part. storing)  
1.
To collect as a reserved supply; to accumulate; to lay away. "Dora stored what little she could save."
2.
To furnish; to supply; to replenish; esp., to stock or furnish against a future time. "Her mind with thousand virtues stored." "Wise Plato said the world with men was stored." "Having stored a pond of four acres with carps, tench, and other fish."
3.
To deposit in a store, warehouse, or other building, for preservation; to warehouse; as, to store goods.


adjective
Store  adj.  Accumulated; hoarded.





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"Store" Quotes from Famous Books



... flight of time. It was not alone the pretty things displayed that interested her, but the wonderfully dressed women who paraded through the aisles of the store. ...
— Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays • Annie Roe Carr
... thin plates, in order to make masks of it, and to be able to set it in bitumen; if it were not so prepared it could not be mounted; other ornaments they make of it, to wear on the head and to hang in the ears and nostrils, for these also they require it to be thin; since they set no store by it as wealth but only for adornment. Guacamari desired them by signs and as well as he was able, to tell the Admiral that as he was thus wounded, he prayed him to have the goodness to come to see him. The sailors ...
— The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 • Various
... repined against the tyranny of her brother Tom. She would have been conscious of no vague imaginative yearnings, nor have beaten herself against the narrow bars of stolid custom. She would have laid up a vast store of linen, and walked thankfully in the path chalked out for her. Certainly she would never have run away with Mr. Stephen Guest without tyranny of a much more tangible kind than that which acts only through the finer ...
— Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) • Leslie Stephen
... acres or more, there was a log camp of the usual construction, with something more like a house adjoining, for the accommodation of the carryman's family and passing lumberers. The bed of withered fir-twigs smelled very sweet, though really very dirty. There was also a store-house on the bank of the river, containing pork, flour, iron, ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. II, No. 8, June 1858 • Various
... cannot produce a single fact, or a single idea, in the moment when it is wanted: they collect, but they cannot combine. We have suggested the means of cultivating the inventive faculty at the same time that we store the memory; we have shown, that on the order in which ideas are presented to the mind, depends the order in which they will recur to the memory; and we have given examples from the histories of great men and little children, of the reciprocal assistance which the memory and the ...
— Practical Education, Volume II • Maria Edgeworth


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