store
English
Etymology
From Middle English store, stoure, storre, from Anglo-Norman stor, estore, estorr, estoer, and Old French estour, estor, from Latin instaurare.
Pronunciation
- (General American) enPR: stôr, IPA(key): /stɔɹ/
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: stô, IPA(key): /stɔː/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: stōr, IPA(key): /sto(ː)ɹ/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /stoə/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
- Homophone: stower (in some accents)
Noun
store (plural stores)
- A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.
- This building used to be a store for old tires.
- A supply held in storage.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, II:13:
- But there was an infinite store of mercy in those eyes, for him too a word of pardon even though he had erred and sinned and wandered.
- 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 6, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:
- By late summer a sufficient store of stone had accumulated, and then the building began […] , under the superintendence of the pigs.
- 2006, Carolly Erickson, The Last Wife of Henry VIII
- What surprised us all was how Will's lighthearted nature and constant store of good humor won over one of the great heiresses of King Henry's court, Anne Bourchier.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, II:13:
- (mainly North American) A place where items may be purchased; a shop.
- I need to get some milk from the grocery store.
- 1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in Twelve O'Clock:
- There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store, an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […] .”
- 1948, Carey McWilliams, North from Mexico / The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 75,
- In 1866 Colonel J. F. Meline noted that the rebozo had almost disappeared in Santa Fe and that hoop skirts, on sale in the stores, were being widely used.
- (computing, dated) Memory.
- The main store of 1000 36-bit words seemed large at the time.
- A great quantity or number; abundance.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 37:
- I make my love engrafted to this store.
- 1645, John Milton, L'Allegro
- With store of Ladies, whose bright eies / Rain influence, and judge the prise / Of Wit, or Arms, while both contend / To win her Grace, whom all commend.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 37:
Synonyms
Derived terms
Terms derived from store (noun)
Related terms
Descendants
- → Afrikaans: stoor
Translations
place where items may be kept
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supply held in storage
shop — see shop
in computing — see memory
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Verb
store (third-person singular simple present stores, present participle storing, simple past and past participle stored)
- (transitive) To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess:
- The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.
- I'll store these books in the attic.
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- (transitive, computing) To write (something) into memory or registers.
- This operation stores the result on the stack.
- (intransitive) To remain in good condition while stored.
- I don't think that kind of cheese will store well in the refrigerator.
Derived terms
Terms derived from the verb "store"
Translations
keep (something) while not in use
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computing: write (something) into memory or registers
remain in good condition while stored
Dutch
Pronunciation
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French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stɔʁ/
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Further reading
- “store” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latvian
Declension
Declension of store (5th declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | |
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nominative (nominatīvs) | store | stores |
accusative (akuzatīvs) | stori | stores |
genitive (ģenitīvs) | stores | storu |
dative (datīvs) | storei | storēm |
instrumental (instrumentālis) | stori | storēm |
locative (lokatīvs) | storē | storēs |
vocative (vokatīvs) | store | stores |
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Anglo-Norman stor, estour, ultimately from Latin instaurare.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stɔːr/
Noun
store (uncountable)
References
- “stōr(e (n.(1))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.
Etymology 2
From Old English stōr and Old Norse stórr, from Proto-Germanic *stōraz; some forms are also influenced by Middle Dutch stuur.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stoːr/, /stuːr/, /stɔːr/
Adjective
store
References
- “stọ̄r(e (adj.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.
References
- “stọ̄re (adv.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.
Etymology 3
From Old English stōr; possibly from a Celtic language.
Alternative forms
- stor, stoure
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stoːr/
References
- “stọ̄r(e (n.(2))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.
Swedish
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