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storehouse

See also: store-house

English

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Etymology

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From store +‎ house.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈstɔː(ɹ)haʊs/
  • Hyphenation: store‧house
  • Audio (US):(file)

Noun

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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.
    • 1988 April 14, Richard Fifield, “Frozen assets of the ice cores”, in New Scientist, number 1608, page 28:
      To most people, the huge ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland are merely water that once was snow. To glaciologists and climatologists, they are storehouses of the Earth's former atmospheres.
  3. (obsolete) A mass or quantity laid up.

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Verb

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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
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