storehouse

See also:store-house

English

Alternative forms

• store-house(archaic)

Etymology

Fromstore+‎house.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˈstɔː(ɹ)haʊs/
• Hyphenation:store‧house

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Noun

storehouse(pluralstorehouses)

1. A building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions.

   Synonyms:magazine,repository,warehouse

   • 1981,William Irwin Thompson,The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture,London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page175:

     Jacobsen's theory about the emptystorehouseis still valid, for a myth never has one meaning only; a myth is a polyphonic fugue of many voices.

2. (figurative,by extension)A single location or resource where a large quantity of something can be found.

   This old book is a genuinestorehouseof useful cooking tips.

3. (obsolete)A mass or quantity laid up.
   • 1591,Ed[mund] Sp[enser],Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie.[…],London:[…]William Ponsonbie,[…],→OCLC:

     enrich thestorehouseof his powerfull wit

Hypernyms

• house

Translations

building for keeping goods of any kind

• Armenian:պահեստ(hy)(pahest)
• Bulgarian:склад(bg)m(sklad),хранилище(bg)n(hranilište)
• Catalan:magatzem(ca)m
• Czech:skladiště(cs)n
• Dutch:pakhuis(nl)n
• Finnish:varasto(fi),varastorakennus(fi)
• French:entrepôt(fr)m
• German:Lagerhaus(de)n,Lager(de)n
• Gothic:𐌱𐌰𐌽𐍃𐍄𐍃m(bansts)
• Greek:αποθήκη(el)f(apothíki)

  Ancient:ἀποθήκηf(apothḗkē)

• Hungarian:tár(hu)
• Icelandic:skemma(is)f,lager(is)m,vöruhús(is)n,pakkhús(is)n
• Ingrian:aitta
• Japanese:Kho hàng(ja)(そうこ, sōko)
• Kapampangan:kamalig
• Latin:apothēcaf
• Macedonian:магаци́н(mk)m(magacín),складm(sklad),скла́диштеn(skládište)
• Manchu:ᠨᠠᠮᡠᠨ(namun)
• Maori:pātengi,pātengitengi,pātaka(mi)
• Ottoman Turkish:انبار(anbar),مخزن(mahzen)
• Polish:magazyn(pl)m,skład(pl)m
• Quechua:raki
• Russian:склад(ru)m(sklad),кладова́я(ru)f(kladovája),цейхга́уз(ru)m(cejxgáuz)
• Spanish:almacén(es)m
• Swahili:ghala(sw)

Verb

storehouse(third-person singular simple presentstorehouses,present participlestorehousing,simple past and past participlestorehoused)

1. (transitive)To lay up in store.

   the mentalstorehousingof information