store

Meaning

Noun

1. A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.
2. A supply held in storage.
3. (North-American, mainly) A place where items may be purchased; a shop.
4. (dated) Memory.
5. A great quantity or number; abundance.
6. A head of store cattle (feeder cattle to be sold to others for finishing); a store cattle beast.

Verb

1. (transitive) To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.
2. To contain.
3. Have the capacity and capability to contain.
4. (transitive) To write (something) into memory or registers.
5. (transitive) To stock, to fill (a container, repository, etc.) with things.

Synonyms

shop

stock

keep

reserve

hoard

save

stockpile

market

accumulate

storage

storehouse

warehouse

boutique

supply

put away

put

collect

cache

preserve

lay in

storeroom

deposit

conserve

depot

place

inventory

gather

repertory

provision

hold

fund

depository

save up

maintain

amass

repository

put by

memory

reservoir

put in

stow

position

pile up

stock up

department store

🏬

lodge

salt away

granary

heap

pantry

Translations

magasin

tienda

⛺

boutique

Laden

negozio

Geschäft

stocker

winkel

Vorrat

bottega

speichern

almacenar

immagazzinare

botiga

conserver

Pronounced as (IPA)

/stɔɹ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: store

In summary

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

Sentences

Get out of my store .

A man pushing a carriage peruses the goods sold at a store .