Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A room in which things are stored.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A room set apart for stores or supplies, especially table and household supplies.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Room in a storehouse or repository; a room in which articles are stored.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A room used for storage.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a room in which things are stored

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Examples

  • As for me, I have a large family of my own to feed and my storeroom is almost empty.

    Katrinka: The Story of a Russian Child 1915

  • It was well lighted and warmed, and something answering to curtains had been summoned from its obscurity in storeroom or garret and hung up at the windows, – "them air fussy English folks had made such a pint of it," the landlord said.

    Queechy 1854

  • The storeroom was a damp chamber in what had been the old farmhouse.

    The Thirty-Nine Steps 2005

  • The storeroom was a big, dark cavern with short thick pillars and tiny windows.

    The Pillars of the Earth FOLLETT, Ken 1989

  • In the storeroom was a shoebox-full of old spectacles discarded by the comrades over the years.

    Chapter 10 - First Escape Date 1987

  • But best of all, behind the storeroom was a bedroom where they could live and - I squelched them.

    Time Enough For Love Heinlein, Robert A. 1973

  • The storeroom was a damp chamber in what had been the old farmhouse.

    The Thirty-Nine Steps 1915

  • The storeroom was a damp chamber in what had been the old farmhouse.

    The Adventure of the Bald Archaeologist 1915

  • The storeroom was a damp chamber in what had been the old farmhouse.

    The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan 1907

  • Beyond the storeroom was a long, narrow dining room on one side and a few little cell-like rooms on the other with a crack of a hall between them leading back to the kitchen, the whole structure, only one story high, having more vertical boards than horizontal in its making.

    Winning the Wilderness Margaret Hill McCarter 1899

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