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

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: stô, IPA^(key): /stɔː/
• (General American) enPR: stôr, IPA^(key): /stɔɹ/

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• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: stōr, IPA^(key): /sto(ː)ɹ/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /stoə/
• Homophone: stower (in some accents)
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)

store (plural stores)

1. A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.

   Near-synonyms: storeroom, stockroom, warehouse, magazine (archaic)

   This building used to be a store for old tires.

   • 1936, Robert Frost, “The Vindictives”, in A Further Range:

     And his subjects wrung all they could wring
     Out of temple and palace and store.

2. A supply held in storage.

   Near-synonyms: stock, supply; cache, stash

   They keep a store of canned goods in their basement.

   They could eat from their stores for a month or two if need be.

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[13]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

     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.

   • 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:

     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.

4. (mainly North American) A building (or portion thereof) where items may be purchased.

   Synonyms: shop; see also Thesaurus:retail store

   Hypernyms: establishment, place

   Hyponyms: grocery store, convenience store, hardware store, drugstore, big box, superstore, boutique; see also Thesaurus:retail store

   Dad went to the store to get milk and bread.

   • 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.

6. (computing, dated) Memory.

   The main store of 1000 36-bit words seemed large at the time.

8. A great quantity or number; abundance.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 37”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:

     I make my love engrafted to this store.

   • a. 1645, John Milton, “L’Allegro”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC:

     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.

9. Ellipsis of store cattle beast: a head of store cattle (feeder cattle to be sold to others for finishing).

   Hypernyms: cattle beast, cow < animal < creature

   heifers and stores

   • 2013 [1978], P. M. Hubbard, The Quiet River‎^[1], republished edition, Orion Publishing Group, →ISBN:

     She saw that there were cattle grazing on two of the fields between her and the river. Whether they were the fields next to the bank she could not be sure, because she could not see the river itself, but from the distance and the fences she thought they must be. If they were a milking herd, it meant that twice a day someone would have to come from Calton and call them in and count heads and open gates for them, but she could not see from here if they were. At this time of the year the heifers and stores looked grown beasts at this distance. There was no one with them now.

• storage

store (third-person singular simple present stores, present participle storing, simple past and past participle stored)

1. (transitive) To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.

   Coordinate terms: lay aside, lay away, lay by, lay in, lay up, put aside, put away, put by, save, store away, store up

   I'll store these books in the attic.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     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.

   • 2024 January 10, Chris Gilson, “RAIL's famous five...”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 27:

     Following allocation to Toton on January 1 1996, it stayed there until transferral to Crewe in November 2000, before being stored at Eastleigh on December 17 the same year.

2. To contain.

   The cabinets store all the food the mice would like.

3. Have the capacity and capability to contain.

   They sell boxes that store 24 mason jars.

4. (transitive, computing) To write (something) into memory or registers.

   This operation stores the result on the stack.

5. (transitive) To stock, to fill (a container, repository, etc.) with things.
   • 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 8, page 244:

     I have eaten my fill, and had my pockets well stored.

• “store”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• store on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Store in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

• torse, resto, tores, toers, estro-, roset, Soter, Resto, sorte, rotes, estro, Oster

store

1. definite of stor
2. plural of stor

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store

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of storen

• roest, roste, stoer

From Latin storea (“mat”), via regional Italian stora (modern Italian stuoia).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /stɔʁ/

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store m (plural stores)

1. blind, shade (for a window)

• → Catalan: estor
• → Galician: estor
• → German: Store
  • → Russian: штора (štora)
• → Portuguese: estore
• → Bulgarian: щора (štora)

• “store”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• resto, rotes, sorte, tores, torse

store f (5th declension)

1. sturgeon

From Anglo-Norman stor, estour, ultimately from Latin instaurare. Compare warnestore.

• stor, stoure, storre, stour, stoor, stoore

• IPA^(key): /stɔːr/

store (uncountable)

2. supplies, provisions
3. livestock, farm animals
4. (stored) possessions, savings
5. collection, storage
6. storehouse, storeroom
7. value, importance

• English: store
  • → Afrikaans: stoor
  • → Irish: stór
  • → Japanese: ストア (sutoa)
  • → Kashubian: sztor (Canada, United States, New Zealand)
  • → Southern Ndebele: isitolo
  • Tok Pisin: stua
    • → Rotokas: sitoa
  • → Cantonese: 士多 (si⁶ do¹)
  • → Zulu: isitolo
• Scots: store
• → Welsh: stôr

• “stōr(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 3 April 2018.

From Old English stōr and Old Norse stórr, from Proto-Germanic *stōraz; some forms are also influenced by Middle Dutch stuur.

• stoor, stour, stur, sture, storre, stowre, stoore, stoure

• IPA^(key): /stoːr/, /stuːr/, /stɔːr/

store

2. strong, powerful, intense
3. violent, threatening, imposing
4. stern, sharp, harsh
5. numerous, large in number
6. large, big, great
7. coarse, rough

• English: stoor, stour (archaic)
• Scots: stour, stoure, sture, stoor, stoar

• “stọ̄r(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 3 April 2018.

store

1. violently, threateningly, imposingly
2. sternly, sharply, harshly

• “stọ̄re, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 3 April 2018.

From Old English stōr; possibly from a Celtic language.

• stor, stoure

• IPA^(key): /stoːr/

store

2. incense, frankincense, storax

• “stọ̄r(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 3 April 2018.

store

1. definite singular of stor
2. plural of stor

store

1. definite singular of stor
2. plural of stor

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store

1. definite natural masculine singular of stor

• orets, rotes, teros