STOREHOUSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does storehouse mean? 

• STOREHOUSE (noun)
  The noun STOREHOUSE has 1 sense:

1. a depository for goods

  Familiarity information: STOREHOUSE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STOREHOUSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A depository for goods

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

depot; entrepot; storage; store; storehouse

Context example:

storehouses were built close to the docks

Hypernyms ("storehouse" is a kind of...):

deposit; depositary; depository; repository (a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "storehouse"):

dump (a place where supplies can be stored)

garner; granary (a storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed)

magazine; powder magazine; powder store (a storehouse (as a compartment on a warship) where weapons and ammunition are stored)

railhead (a railroad depot in a theater of operations where military supplies are unloaded for distribution)

treasure house (a storehouse for treasures)

storage warehouse; warehouse (a storehouse for goods and merchandise)

 Context examples 

The lakes in the Dry Valleys are, like most other lakes, storehouses of materials that find their way into them.

(Antarctic lakes are a repository for ancient soot, NSF)

His brain was a most accessible storehouse of remembered fact and fancy, and its contents seemed ever ordered and spread for his inspection.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Catherine heard, admired, and wondered with more genuine feeling than before—gathered all that she could from this storehouse of knowledge, by running over the titles of half a shelf, and was ready to proceed.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The enormously thick walls and tiny windows of this part had in the last century driven the family into building the new wing, and the old one was used now as a storehouse and a cellar, when it was used at all.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)