store

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English [edit]

Etymology [edit]

Middle English, from Old French, from Latin instaurare

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Noun [edit]

store (plural stores)

  1. A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.
    This building used to be a store for old tires.
  2. A supply held in storage.
    • 1945, George Orwell, Animal Farm, chapter 6
      By late summer a sufficient store of stone had accumulated, and then the building began [] .
  3. (mainly North American) A place where items may be purchased.
    I need to get some milk from the grocery store.
  4. (computing, archaic) Memory.
    The main store of 1000 36-bit words seemed large at the time.
  5. A large amount of information retained in one's memory.
    His vast store of jokes means he has something funny to say in every situation.

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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.
    I'll store these books in the attic.
  2. (transitive, computing) Write (something) into memory or registers.
    This operation stores the result on the stack.
  3. (intransitive) To remain in good condition while stored.
    I don't think that kind of cheese will store well in the refrigerator.

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Danish [edit]

Adjective [edit]

store

  1. definite of stor
  2. plural of stor

Dutch [edit]

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store

  1. singular present subjunctive of storen

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French [edit]

Etymology [edit]

Latin storea.

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Noun [edit]

store m (plural stores)

  1. blind, shade (for a window)

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Norwegian Bokmål [edit]

Adjective [edit]

store

  1. definite singular of stor
  2. plural of stor

Norwegian Nynorsk [edit]

Adjective [edit]

store

  1. definite singular of stor
  2. plural of stor



Swedish [edit]

Adjective [edit]

store

  1. absolute definite natural masculine form of stor.