store
a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,727 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 10,534 times across 175,160 chapters — 0.005% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services also: shop he bought it at a shop on Cape Cod
- a supply of something available for future use also: stock, fund he brought back a large store of Cuban cigars
- an electronic memory device also: memory, computer memory, storage, computer storage, memory board a memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached
- a depository for goods also: storehouse, depot, entrepot, storage storehouses were built close to the docks
verb
- keep or lay aside for future use also: hive away, lay in, put in, salt away, stack away, stash away store grain for the winterThe bear stores fat for the period of hibernation when he doesn't eat
- find a place for and put away for storage where should we stow the vegetables?I couldn't store all the books in the attic so I sold some
store in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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But Mrs. Cobley didn't set much store on that.
The Torch and Other Tales · Eden Phillpotts · Chapter 1
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Who knows what compensations the future may have in store for you?
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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House, all unconscious of what is in store for it, wantons at play.
Punch — Volume 99, August 16, 1890 · Various · Chapter 1
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I had a strange feeling that fate had in store for me exquisite joys and exquisite sorrows.
The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde · Chapter 1
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Every fly used his middle legs afterward to press and roll up into his basket his little store.
Piccolissima · Adélaïde de Montgolfier · Chapter 1