store

Meanings

Noun

• A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.
• A supply held in storage.
• A place where items may be purchased; a shop.
• Memory.
• A great quantity or number; abundance.
• A head of store cattle (feeder cattle to be sold to others for finishing); a store cattle beast.

Verb

• To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.
• Contain.
• Have the capacity and capability to contain.
• To write (something) into memory or registers.

Related

Similar words

• stock, supply
• memory

Origin

• From Middle English store, stoure, storre, from Anglo-Norman stor, estore, estorr, estoer, and Old French estour, estor, from Latin instaurō.