STOREROOM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does storeroom mean? 

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

1. a room in which things are stored

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• STOREROOM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A room in which things are stored

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

storage room; storeroom; stowage

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

room (an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling)

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

chandlery (a storeroom where candles are kept)

lumber room (a storeroom in a house where odds and ends can be stored (especially furniture))

buttery; larder; pantry (a small storeroom for storing foods or wines)

stock room; stockroom (storeroom for storing goods and supplies used in a business)

strongroom (a burglarproof and fireproof room in which valuables are kept)

 Context examples 

Leah, make a little hot negus and cut a sandwich or two: here are the keys of the storeroom.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

An airing in the Hartfield carriage would have been the rack, and arrowroot from the Hartfield storeroom must have been poison.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Fired with a housewifely wish to see her storeroom stocked with homemade preserves, she undertook to put up her own currant jelly.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Anybody may blame me who likes, when I add further, that, now and then, when I took a walk by myself in the grounds; when I went down to the gates and looked through them along the road; or when, while Adele played with her nurse, and Mrs. Fairfax made jellies in the storeroom, I climbed the three staircases, raised the trap-door of the attic, and having reached the leads, looked out afar over sequestered field and hill, and along dim sky-line—that then I longed for a power of vision which might overpass that limit; which might reach the busy world, towns, regions full of life I had heard of but never seen—that then I desired more of practical experience than I possessed; more of intercourse with my kind, of acquaintance with variety of character, than was here within my reach.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

From school duties she was exonerated: Mrs. Fairfax had pressed me into her service, and I was all day in the storeroom, helping (or hindering) her and the cook; learning to make custards and cheese-cakes and French pastry, to truss game and garnish desert-dishes.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)