Storehouse Meaning
/ˈstɔː(ɹ)haʊs/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions.
nounA single location or resource where a large quantity of something can be found.
Sentence Examples
The rebels began distributing food and clothing from the storehouse to the locals.
In the criminals' storehouse, the authorities found pallets upon pallets of stolen goods.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The company used the old building as a ____ for spare parts.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The old brick building served as a ____ for the local farmers to keep their grain dry during winter.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree English store Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH-der.? Proto-Germanic *hūsą Proto-West Germanic *hūs Old English hūs Middle English hous English house English storehouse From store + house.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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."
— 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 175:
"Three days passed. Carrados was not unendurably bored, for his mind was an inexhaustible storehouse […]"
— 1927, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados Mysteries:
"To most people, the huge ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland are merely water that once was snow. To glaciologists and climatologists, they are storehouses of the Earth's former atmospheres."
— 1988 April 14, Richard Fifield, “Frozen assets of the ice cores”, in New Scientist, number 1608, page 28:
"enrich the storehouse of his powerfull wit"
— 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The company used the old building as a ____ for spare parts.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The old brick building served as a ____ for the local farmers to keep their grain dry during winter.