Wiktionary

store

See also: Store, storĕ, störe, and Störe

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

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

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Terms derived from store (noun)

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DescendantsEdit

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

TranslationsEdit

shop — see shop
in computing — see memory
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VerbEdit

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 termsEdit

Terms derived from the verb "store"

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DanishEdit

AdjectiveEdit

store

  1. definite of stor
  2. plural of stor

DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

store

  1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of storen

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FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

Latin storea (“mat”), via regional Italian stora (modern Italian stuoia).[1]

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NounEdit

store m (plural stores)

  1. blind, shade (for a window)

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ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Etymology and history of “store”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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LatvianEdit

NounEdit

store f (5th declension)

  1. sturgeon

DeclensionEdit

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 EnglishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Anglo-Norman stor, estour, ultimately from Latin instaurare. Compare warnestore.

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NounEdit

store (uncountable)

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

From Old English stōr and Old Norse stórr, from Proto-Germanic *stōraz; some forms are also influenced by Middle Dutch stuur.

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PronunciationEdit

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

AdjectiveEdit

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
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AdverbEdit

store

  1. violently, threateningly, imposingly
  2. sternly, sharply, harshly
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Etymology 3Edit

From Old English stōr; possibly from a Celtic language.

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NounEdit

store

  2. incense, frankincense, storax
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Norwegian BokmålEdit

AdjectiveEdit

store

  1. definite singular of stor
  2. plural of stor

Norwegian NynorskEdit

AdjectiveEdit

store

  1. definite singular of stor
  2. plural of stor

SwedishEdit

AdjectiveEdit

store

  1. absolute definite natural masculine singular of stor.

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