Store Meaning
/stɔː/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.
nounA supply held in storage.
Sentence Examples
Please tell us where there is a grocery store.
You will find this in a hardware store.
We do not have adequate space to store these documents.
CEFR Practice Quiz
I need to ____ these boxes in the basement until next month.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
I need to go to the grocery ____ to buy some fresh milk and a loaf of whole-wheat bread for breakfast.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English store, stoure, storre, from Anglo-Norman stor, estore, estorr, estoer, and Old French estour, estor, from Latin īnstaurō.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"And his subjects wrung all they could wring
Out of temple and palace and store."
— 1936, Robert Frost, “The Vindictives”, in A Further Range:
"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."
— 1922 February, James Joyce, “[13]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
"By late summer a sufficient store of stone had accumulated, and then the building began[…], under the superintendence of the pigs."
— 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
"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."
— 2006, Carolly Erickson, The Last Wife of Henry VIII:
"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 […].”"
— 1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in Twelve O'Clock:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
I need to ____ these boxes in the basement until next month.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
I need to go to the grocery ____ to buy some fresh milk and a loaf of whole-wheat bread for breakfast.