Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A place or building in which goods are stored; a warehouse.
- noun An abundant source or supply.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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.
- noun A store; a plentiful supply.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions; a magazine; a repository; a warehouse.
- noun obsolete A mass or quality laid up.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions; a magazine; a repository; a
warehouse . - noun by extension A single non-geographical place where a large quantity of something can be found.
- noun obsolete A mass or quality laid up.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a depository for goods
Etymologies
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Examples
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In the storehouse is a box of explosives Telders recovered from the old Norwegian research hut while his team was assembling the Array.
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The glories of London, which he calls the storehouse and mart of all Europe, and the excellence of
The Bibliotaph and Other People Leon H. Vincent
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Intermediate long-term storehouse Connectors for storehouse filling.
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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.
Nutrition & Metabolism meeting | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2008
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On the first floor of the storehouse was the journeymen's workroom.
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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.
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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.
A Manual of North Carolina Issued by the North Carolina Historical Commission for the Use of Members of the General Assembly Session 1913 Robert Digges Wimberly 1913
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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, 1901
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He has laid up the supply of all our need in the storehouse, which is
Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms Alexander Maclaren 1868
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-- 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.
The French Revolution - Volume 3 Hippolyte Taine 1860
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