Etimology
From Middle English store, stoure, storre, from Anglo-Norman stor, estore, estorr, estoer, and Old French estour, estor, from Latin īnstaurō.
noun
store (plural stores)
A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.
A supply held in storage.
(mainly North American) A place where items may be purchased; a shop.
(computing, dated) Memory.
A great quantity or number; abundance.
A head of store cattle (feeder cattle to be sold to others for finishing); a store cattle beast.
Examples
This building used to be a store for old tires.
And his subjects wrung all they could wringOut of temple and palace and store.
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.
By late summer a sufficient store of stone had accumulated, and then the building began […] , under the superintendence of the pigs.
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.
I need to get some milk from the grocery store.
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 […] .”
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.
The main store of 1000 36-bit words seemed large at the time.
I make my love engrafted to this store.
With store of Ladies, whose bright eiesRain influence, and judge the priseOf Wit, or Arms, while both contendTo win her Grace, whom all commend.
Related words
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
related terms
storage
verb
store (third-person singular simple present stores, present participle storing, simple past and past participle stored)
(transitive) To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.
To contain.
Have the capacity and capability to contain.
(transitive, computing) To write (something) into memory or registers.
(transitive) To stock, to fill (a container, repository, etc.) with things.
Examples
Coordinate terms: lay aside, lay away, lay by, lay in, lay up, put aside, put away, put by, save, store away, store up
I'll store these books in the attic.
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.
Following allocation to Toton on January 1 1996, it stayed there until transferral to Crewe in November 2000, before being stored at Eastleigh on December 17 the same year.
The cabinets store all the food the mice would like.
They sell boxes that store 24 mason jars.
This operation stores the result on the stack.
I have eaten my fill, and had my pockets well stored.