What does "store" mean?

A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.

What is a synonym for "store"?

Common synonyms include: boutique, shop, shop, stock, stock, storehouse.

//stɔː// noun, verb

noun, verb ·Very common ·Middle school level

Noun

1
A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.
"Near-synonyms: storeroom, stockroom, warehouse, magazine (archaic)"
2
an electronic memory device wordnet
3
A supply held in storage.
"Near-synonyms: stock, supply; cache, stash"
4
a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services wordnet
5
A building (or portion thereof) where items may be purchased. North-American, mainly
"Dad went to the store to get milk and bread."

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a depository for goods wordnet
7
Memory. dated
"The main store of 1000 36-bit words seemed large at the time."
8
a supply of something available for future use wordnet
9
A great quantity or number; abundance.
"I make my love engrafted to this store."
10
Ellipsis of store cattle beast: a head of store cattle (feeder cattle to be sold to others for finishing). abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
"heifers and stores"

Verb

1
To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose. transitive
"I'll store these books in the attic."
2
keep or lay aside for future use wordnet
3
To contain.
"The cabinets store all the food the mice would like."
4
find a place for and put away for storage wordnet
5
Have the capacity and capability to contain.
"They sell boxes that store 24 mason jars."

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To write (something) into memory or registers. transitive
"This operation stores the result on the stack."
7
To stock, to fill (a container, repository, etc.) with things. transitive
"I have eaten my fill, and had my pockets well stored."

"Please tell us where there is a grocery store."

From Middle English store, stoure, storre, from Anglo-Norman stor, estore, estorr, estoer, and Old French estour, estor, from Latin īnstaurō.

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