storehouse

English

Etymology

store +‎ house

Noun

storehouse (plural storehouses)

1. A building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions; a magazine; a repository; a warehouse.
2. (by extension) A single non-geographical place 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 Spenser to this entry?)

Translations

building for keeping goods of any kind

• Armenian: պահեստ (hy) (pahest) 
• German: Lagerhaus (de) n, Lager (de) n

• Russian: склад (ru) (sklad) m , кладовая (ru) (kladovája) f , цейхгауз (ru) (tsejxgáus) m 
• Spanish: almacén (es) m

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