Storehouse
['stɔːhaʊs] or ['stɔrhaʊs]
Definition
(noun.) a depository for goods; 'storehouses were built close to the docks'.
Typed by Keller--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions; a magazine; a repository; a warehouse.
(n.) A mass or quality laid up.
Checker: Merle
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Warehouse, repository, treasury, depot, magazine
Editor: Val
Examples
- The atmosphere, which we ordinarily think of as a storehouse of oxygen, contains far more nitrogen than oxygen, since four fifths of its whole weight is made up of this element. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The men accompanied him to the edge of the jungle, where he left his clothes in a small storehouse. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- In all this time I had slept but twice, though once the clock around within the storehouse of the therns. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- He took his fifteen hundred copies to his storehouse on the train. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Finally I opened the pedestal--a storehouse for tools, etc. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The more pretentious and better furnished home of the superintendent of the estate, together with the storehouses, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- About a million and a half dollars' worth of store and property on the levee and in storehouses was consumed by fire. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- They are then sent to the shipping department to be shipped immediately or stored in one of the spacious storehouses. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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