storehouse

storehouse

English

Etymology

store +‎ house

Pronunciation

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Noun

storehouse (plural storehouses)

1. A building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 175:

     Jacobsen's theory about the empty storehouse is still valid, for a myth never has one meaning only; a myth is a polyphonic fugue of many voices.

   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.
   • 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], OCLC 15537294:

     enrich the storehouse of his powerfull wit

Hypernyms

• house

Translations

building for keeping goods of any kind

Armenian: պահեստ (hy) (pahest) Bulgarian: склад (bg) m (sklad), хранилище (bg) n (hranilište) Catalan: magatzem (ca) m Czech: skladiště (cs) n German: Lagerhaus (de) n, Lager (de) n Gothic: 𐌱𐌰𐌽𐍃𐍄𐍃 m (bansts) Greek: Ancient: ἀποθήκη f (apothḗkē) Icelandic: skemma (is) f, lager (is) m, vöruhús n, pakkhús n Japanese: 倉庫 (ja) (そうこ, sōko) Kapampangan: kamalig Latin: apothēca f 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

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