storehouse en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈstɔː(ɹ)haʊs/
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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *steh₂u-ro- Proto-Italic *stauros Latin *staurō Latin īnstaurō Proto-Italic *-āzi ▲ Latin -ereinflu. Latin -āre Latin īnstaurāreder. Anglo-Norman storbor. Middle English store 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.
Meanings
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A building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions.
(obsolete)
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:
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(broadly, figuratively) A single location or resource where a large quantity of something can be found.
Three days passed. Carrados was not unendurably bored, for his mind was an inexhaustible storehouse […]
1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries:This old book is a genuine storehouse of useful cooking tips.
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:
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(obsolete) A mass or quantity laid up.
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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| storehouses | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| store-house | alternative, archaic | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Hypernyms
Synonyms
magazine · depository · repository · warehouse · conservatory
Translations (40)
hu tár (building for keeping goods of any kind) · fr entrepôt (building for keeping goods of any kind) · qu raki (building for keeping goods of any kind) · pl skład (building for keeping goods of any kind) · ca magatzem (building for keeping goods of any kind) · ota انبار (building for keeping goods of any kind) · sw ghala (building for keeping goods of any kind) · es almacén (building for keeping goods of any kind) · got 𐌱𐌰𐌽𐍃𐍄𐍃 (building for keeping goods of any kind) · pl magazyn (building for keeping goods of any kind) · is pakkhús (building for keeping goods of any kind) · bg склад (building for keeping goods of any kind) · mk склад (building for keeping goods of any kind) · cs skladiště (building for keeping goods of any kind) · is lager (building for keeping goods of any kind) · nl pakhuis (building for keeping goods of any kind) · bg хранилище (building for keeping goods of any kind) · mnc ᠨᠠᠮᡠᠨ (building for keeping goods of any kind) · mi pātaka (building for keeping goods of any kind) · fi varastorakennus (building for keeping goods of any kind) · el αποθήκη (building for keeping goods of any kind) · izh aitta (building for keeping goods of any kind) · fi varasto (building for keeping goods of any kind) · ja 倉庫 (building for keeping goods of any kind) · is skemma (building for keeping goods of any kind) · grc ἀποθήκη (building for keeping goods of any kind) · mi pātengi (building for keeping goods of any kind) · la apothēca (building for keeping goods of any kind) · mk скла́диште (building for keeping goods of any kind) · hy պահեստ (building for keeping goods of any kind) · is vöruhús (building for keeping goods of any kind) · mi pātengitengi (building for keeping goods of any kind) · pam kamalig (building for keeping goods of any kind) · ru склад (building for keeping goods of any kind) · ru цейхга́уз (building for keeping goods of any kind) · de Lagerhaus (building for keeping goods of any kind) · ru кладова́я (building for keeping goods of any kind) · de Lager (building for keeping goods of any kind) · mk магаци́н (building for keeping goods of any kind) · ota مخزن (building for keeping goods of any kind)