store

About 36.97 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.

   This building used to be a store for old tires.

2. noun A supply held in storage.

   They keep a store of canned goods in their basement.

3. noun A building (or portion thereof) where items may be purchased.

   Dad went to the store to get milk and bread.

4. noun Memory.

   The main store of 1000 36-bit words seemed large at the time.

5. noun A great quantity or number; abundance.
6. noun Ellipsis of store cattle beast: a head of store cattle (feeder cattle to be sold to others for finishing).

   heifers and stores

7. verb To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.

   I'll store these books in the attic.

8. verb To contain.

   The cabinets store all the food the mice would like.

Similar words

warehousing storehouse store-bought storage depot shop entrepot stow stock salt away

Often followed by

of and in for the to at is on

Word family

storable stored stores storing