Meaning

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

    Near-synonyms: storeroom, stockroom, warehouse, magazine (archaic)

    This building used to be a store for old tires.

    Lager, Speicher

    складsklad, храни́лищеxranílišče

    складsklad, схо́вищеsxóvyšče

  2. A supply held in storage.

    Near-synonyms: stock, supply; cache, stash

    They keep a store of canned goods in their basement.

    Vorrat, Lagerbestand

    запа́сzapás

    запа́сzapás

    a supply of something available for future use

  3. (North American, mainly)A building (or portion thereof) where items may be purchased.

    Dad went to the store to get milk and bread.

  4. (dated)Memory.

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

    an electronic memory device

  5. A great quantity or number; abundance.

Examples

2753 sentences
  1. The store is across the street.

    Магазин - на іншому боці вулиці. — aandrusiak

    deDer Laden ist auf der anderen Straßenseite. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. The store might be closed already.

    Магазин вже може бути закритим. — quez

    ruМагазин уже может быть закрыт. — marafon

    deDer Laden könnte schon geschlossen sein. — Wolf

  3. They sell meat at this store.

    У магазині продають м’ясо. — uaspeaker

    ruВ магазине продают мясо. — Hellerick

    deIn diesem Laden wird Fleisch verkauft. — Tamy

  4. She saw me enter the store.

    Вона бачила, як я зайшов до магазину. — aandrusiak

    ruОна видела, как я входил в магазин. — soweli_Elepanto

    deSie sah mich den Laden betreten. — Espi

  5. What time does the store open?

    О котрій годині відчиняється магазин? — deniko

    ruВо сколько открывается магазин? — marafon

    deUm wie viel Uhr öffnet das Geschäft? — kolonjano

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
place where items may be kept:
supply held in storage:
Русский
By meaning 2
place where items may be kept:
supply held in storage:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
place where items may be kept:
supply held in storage:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English store, borrowed from Anglo-Norman stor, from Latin īnstaurār

Inherited from Middle English store, borrowed from Anglo-Norman stor, from Latin īnstaurāre, from īnstaurō + -āre.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

plural: stores
Singularstore
Pluralstores

regular

Synonyms

21 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a supply of something available for future use:stockfund
  • a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services:shop
  • an electronic memory device:memorycomputer memorystoragecomputer storagememory board
  • a depository for goods:storehousedepotentrepotstorage

Word family

121 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • convenience store
  • to the store
  • a convenience store
  • department store
  • at that store
  • in the store
  • store to buy
  • grocery store
  • the grocery store
  • the store is
  • of the store
  • the convenience store

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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