storehouse

noun

store·​house ˈstȯr-ˌhau̇s How to pronounce storehouse (audio)
1
: a building for storing goods (such as provisions) : magazine, warehouse
2
: an abundant supply or source : repository
a storehouse of information

Examples of storehouse in a Sentence

the company has a large storehouse filled with lumber for manufacturing its line of furniture
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By the time the raid was over, the British had torched storehouses and barns, destroying thousands of barrels of beef, flour, wheat, oats and corn. Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Feb. 2025 The pumphouse campus once had a machine shop, storehouse, carriage house and stables and a brick-making kiln. Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2025 The munitions workshop, in a basement, largely converted conventional ordnance from old storehouses for uses its original manufacturers could not have imagined. C.j. Chivers Robert Fass Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024 The way that Kalief Browder, 16, medium brown and smallish for his age, came to reside in that storehouse of hurt for three years is a story in its own right. Jelani Cobb, Rolling Stone, 4 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for storehouse

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of storehouse was in the 14th century

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storehouse

noun
store·​house ˈstō(ə)r-ˌhau̇s How to pronounce storehouse (audio)
ˈstȯ(ə)r-
1
: a building for storing goods
2
: a large supply : repository
a storehouse of information

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