storehouse

C2+ Topic:General Vocabulary

Also spelled store-house

US /ˈstɔrˌhaʊs/ UK /ˈstɔːˌhaʊs/ See IPA manual

Meanings

1

noun
a building or repository where goods are stored

The grain storehouse stood full ahead of the long winter.

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Synonyms

1 noun · a building or repository... warehouse depot repository store depository granary magazine

Word family

Related forms store house

Etymology

A compound of 'store' (via Old French 'estor', from Latin 'instaurare', to restore, provide) and 'house' (Old English 'hūs').

instaurare Latin hūs Old English

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# storehouse

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /ˈstɔrˌhaʊs/
**IPA (UK):** /ˈstɔːˌhaʊs/

## Meanings
1. a building or repository where goods are stored

## Examples
- The grain storehouse stood full ahead of the long winter.

## Synonyms
- warehouse
- depot
- repository
- store
- depository
- granary
- magazine

## Related Forms
- store
- house

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: instaurare
- Root: hūs

## Etymology
A compound of 'store' (via Old French 'estor', from Latin 'instaurare', to restore, provide) and 'house' (Old English 'hūs').

## AI Etymology
Storehouse is a compound of 'store' (via Old French 'estor', from Latin 'instaurare', to restore, provide) and 'house' (Old English 'hūs'). Important recorded forms include instaurare (Latin) and hūs (Old English). Morphologically, the word preserves a built structure whose named elements carry the historical sense into English. The modern sense continues the older lexical line without requiring a separate origin. In current use it covers a building or repository where goods are stored. The wider family includes related words such as store and house.

## Topics
- General Vocabulary

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