storehouse

See also: store-house

English

Alternative forms

• store-house (archaic)

Etymology

store +‎ house

Pronunciation

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Noun

storehouse (plural storehouses)

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., page 175:

     Jacobsen's theory about the empty storehouse is 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 genuine storehouse of 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 the storehouse of 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
• German: Lagerhaus (de) n, Lager (de) n
• Gothic: 𐌱𐌰𐌽𐍃𐍄𐍃 m (bansts)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἀποθήκη f (apothḗkē)

• Hungarian: tár (hu)
• Icelandic: skemma (is) f, lager (is) m, vöruhús n, pakkhús n
• Ingrian: aitta
• Japanese: 倉庫 (ja) (そうこ, sōko)
• Kapampangan: kamalig
• Latin: apothēca f
• Macedonian: магаци́н m (magacín), склад m (sklad), скла́диште n (skládište)
• Manchu: ᠨᠠᠮᡠᠨ (namun)
• Maori: pātengi, pātengitengi, pātaka (mi)
• Ottoman Turkish: انبار (anbar), مخزن (mahzen)
• 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 present storehouses, present participle storehousing, simple past and past participle storehoused)

1. (transitive) To lay up in store.

   the mental storehousing of information