store

See also: Store, storĕ, störe, and Störe

English

Etymology

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

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)

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
• Homophone: stower (in some accents)

Noun

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.
   • 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.

   • 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 6, in Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, →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.

3. (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.

4. (computing, dated) Memory.

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

5. 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.

6. A head of store cattle (feeder cattle to be sold to others for finishing); a store cattle beast.

Synonyms

• (supply held in storage): stock, supply
• (place from which items may be purchased): boutique, shop (UK); see also Thesaurus:retail store
• (in computing): memory

Derived terms

Terms derived from store (noun)

• app store
• company store
• cool store
• drugstore
• general store
• variety store
• give away the store
• in store
• mind the store
• put store by
• put store in
• set store by
• sto
• storage
• storebought
• storefront
• storehouse
• storekeeper
• storeroom

Related terms

• storage

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: stua
  • → Rotokas: sitoa
• → Afrikaans: stoor
• → Cantonese: 士多 (si⁶ do¹)

Translations

place where items may be kept

• Armenian: պահեստ (hy) (pahest)
• Assamese: ভঁৰাল (bhõral)
• Bashkir: келәт (kelät)
• Bulgarian: склад (bg) m (sklad)
• Chickasaw: aachompa'
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 倉庫／仓库 (zh) (cāngkù)

• Czech: sklad (cs) m
• Dutch: magazijn (nl) n
• Estonian: ladu
• Finnish: varasto (fi)
• French: entrepôt (fr) m
• Galician: depósito (gl) m
• German: Lager (de) n, Speicher (de) m
• Greek: αποθήκη (el) f (apothíki)
• Italian: magazzino (it) m, deposito (it) m
• Japanese: 倉庫 (ja) (そうこ, sōko)
• Korean: 창고 (ko) (changgo)
• Latvian: noliktava f
• Lithuanian: sandėlis m
• Maltese: maħżen m
• Maori: pātengi, kōpapa, pātaka (mi)
• Mongolian: нөөц (mn) (nööc)
• Northern Sami: rádju
• Norwegian: lager (no) n
• Oromo: kuusaa
• Polish: skład (pl) m, magazyn (pl) m
• Portuguese: depósito (pt) m
• Romanian: depozit (ro) n, magazie (ro) f
• Russian: склад (ru) m (sklad), храни́лище (ru) n (xranílišče)
• Spanish: depósito (es) m
• Swedish: lager (sv) n
• Ukrainian: склад (uk) (sklad)
• Volapük: kipedöp (vo)

supply held in storage

• Bulgarian: запас (bg) m (zapas)
• Dutch: voorraad (nl) m
• Finnish: varasto (fi)
• French: stock (fr) m
• German: Vorrat (de) m, Lagerbestand m
• Greek: απόθεμα (el) n (apóthema), παρακαταθήκη (el) f (parakatathíki)
• Italian: scorta (it) f
• Latvian: krājums m
• Lithuanian: atsargos (lt) f pl
• Maltese: ħażna f
• Maori: rokiroki
• Northern Sami: rádju
• Norwegian: lager (no) n, forråd (no) m
• Persian: ذخیره‎ (fa) (zaxire), ستنج‎ (setanj)
• Polish: zapas (pl) m
• Portuguese: estoque (pt) m
• Romanian: stoc (ro) n
• Swedish: lager (sv) n

shop — see shop

in computing — see memory

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Translations to be checked

• Ukrainian: ^{(please verify)} крамни́ця f (kramnýcja) (1), ^{(please verify)} комо́ра (uk) f (komóra) (2), ^{(please verify)} запа́с m (zapás) (3), ^{(please verify)} па́м'ять f (pámʺjatʹ) (4)

Verb

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.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess‎^[1]:

     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.

2. 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.

Derived terms

Terms derived from the verb "store"

• store away
• store up

Translations

keep (something) while not in use

• Arabic: خَزَنَ‎ (ḵazana)
• Asturian: almacenar
• Bashkir: һаҡлау (haqlaw), һаҡтау (haqtaw), тотоу (totow)
• Bulgarian: складирам (bg) (skladiram)
• Catalan: emmagatzemar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 儲存／储存 (zh) (chǔcún)

• Dutch: bewaren (nl)
• Finnish: varastoida (fi)
• French: stocker (fr)
• Galician: almacenar (gl)
• German: lagern (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἀποτίθημι (apotíthēmi)

• Hungarian: tárol (hu)
• Irish: coinnigh
• Italian: immagazzinare (it)
• Japanese: 蓄える (ja) (たくわえる, takuwaeru), 備蓄する (ja) (びちくする, bichiku suru), 貯める (ja) (ためる, tameru)
• Korean: 보관시키다 (bogwansikida)
• Latin: condō (la)
• Lithuanian: sandėliuoti
• Mongolian: нөөцлөх (mn) (nööclöx)
• Norwegian: oppbevare
• Polish: przechowywać (pl) impf, przechować pf
• Portuguese: armazenar (pt), guardar (pt)
• Romanian: depozita (ro)
• Russian: храни́ть (ru) impf (xranítʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: stòir
• Slovene: shraniti
• Spanish: almacenar (es)
• Swedish: lagra (sv), förvara (sv)
• Ukrainian: зберіга́ти (zberiháty)

computing: write (something) into memory or registers

• Bashkir: һаҡлау (haqlaw)
• Bulgarian: записвам (bg) (zapisvam)
• Danish: lagre
• Dutch: opslaan (nl)
• Finnish: tallettaa (fi)
• French: stocker (fr)
• German: speichern (de)
• Italian: registrare (it)
• Norwegian: lagre (no)
• Russian: храни́ть (ru) impf (xranítʹ)
• Slovene: shraniti
• Spanish: almacenar (es)
• Swedish: lagra (sv), spara (sv)
• Ukrainian: зберіга́ти (zberiháty)

remain in good condition while stored

• Bashkir: һаҡланыу (haqlanıw), һаҡталыу (haqtalıw)
• Bulgarian: съхранявам се (sǎhranjavam se)
• Danish: beholde
• Dutch: behouden (nl)
• Finnish: säilyä (fi)
• French: conserver (fr)
• German: sich halten
• Italian: conservare (it)
• Norwegian: holde (seg) (no)
• Russian: сохраня́ться (ru) impf (soxranjátʹsja), сохрани́ться (ru) pf (soxranítʹsja)
• Spanish: conservar (es)
• Swedish: hålla sig

References

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

Anagrams

• Resto, estro-, resto, roset, rotes, sorte, tores, torse

Danish

Adjective

store

1. definite of stor
2. plural of stor

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Verb

store

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of storen

Anagrams

• roest, roste, stoer

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stɔʁ/

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Noun

store m (plural stores)

1. blind, shade (for a window)

Descendants

• → Catalan: estor
• → Galician: estor
• → German: Store
• → Portuguese: estore

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• resto, rotes, sorte, tores, torse

Latvian

Noun

store f (5th declension)

1. sturgeon

Declension

Declension of store (5th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
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. Compare warnestore.

Alternative forms

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stɔːr/

Noun

store (uncountable)

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

Descendants

• English: store
  • Tok Pisin: stua
    • → Rotokas: sitoa
  • → Afrikaans: stoor
  • → Cantonese: 士多 (si⁶ do¹)
• Scots: store

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.

Alternative forms

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

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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

Descendants

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

References

• “stọ̄r(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.

Adverb

store

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

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/

Noun

store

2. incense, frankincense, storax

References

• “stọ̄r(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

store

1. definite singular of stor
2. plural of stor

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

store

1. definite singular of stor
2. plural of stor

Swedish

Adjective

store

1. absolute definite natural masculine singular of stor.

Anagrams

• orets, rotes, teros