storehouse

English

Etymology

store +‎ house

Noun

storehouse (plural storehouses)

1. A building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions

   Synonyms: magazine, repository, warehouse

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.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)

Hypernyms

• house

Translations

building for keeping goods of any kind

• Armenian: պահեստ (hy) (pahest)
• Catalan: magatzem (ca) m
• Czech: skladiště (cs) n
• German: Lagerhaus (de) n, Lager (de) n
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἀποθήκη f (apothḗkē)

• Icelandic: skemma (is) f, lager (is) m, vöruhús n, pakkhús n
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• Japanese: 倉庫 (ja) (そうこ, sōko)
• Manchu: ᠨᠠᠮᡠᠨ (namun)
• Maori: pātengi, pātengitengi, pātaka (mi)
• Quechua: raki
• Russian: склад (ru) m (sklad), кладова́я (ru) f (kladovája), цейхга́уз (ru) m (cejxgáuz)
• Spanish: almacén (es) m
• Swahili: ghala (sw)

Verb

1. (transitive) To lay up in store.

   the mental storehousing of information