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English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: stôr, IPA^(key): /st??/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: stô, IPA^(key): /st??/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: st?r, IPA^(key): /sto(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /sto?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophone: stower (in some accents)

Noun

store (plural stores)

1. A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.

2. A supply held in storage.
   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, II:13:

     But there was an infinite store of mercy in those eyes, for him too a word of pardon even though he had erred and sinned and wandered.

   • By late summer a sufficient store of stone had accumulated, and then the building began […] , under the superintendence of the pigs.
3. (mainly North American) A place where items may be purchased; a shop.
   • 1948, Carey McWilliams, North from Mexico / The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 75,

     In 1866 Colonel J. F. Meline noted that the rebozo had almost disappeared in Santa Fe and that hoop skirts, on sale in the stores, were being widely used.

4. (computing, dated) Memory.

5. A great quantity or number; abundance.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 37:

     I make my love engrafted to this store.

   • 1645, John Milton, L'Allegro

     With store of Ladies, whose bright eies / Rain influence, and judge the prise / Of Wit, or Arms, while both contend / To win her Grace, whom all commend.

Synonyms

• (supply held in storage): stock, supply
• (place from which items may be purchased): boutique, shop (UK); see also Thesaurus:retail store
• (in computing): memory

Derived terms

Related terms

• storage

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: stua
  • ? Rotokas: sitoa
• ? Afrikaans: stoor

Translations

Verb

store (third-person singular simple present stores, present participle storing, simple past and past participle stored)

1. (transitive) To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.

2. Contain.

   The cabinets store all the food the mice would like.

3. Have the capacity and capability to contain.

   They sell boxes that store 24 mason jars.

4. (transitive, computing) To write (something) into memory or registers.

Derived terms

Translations

References

• store at OneLook Dictionary Search
• store on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• store in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• Resto, estro-, resto, roset, rotes, sorte, tores, torse

Danish

Adjective

store

1. definite of stor
2. plural of stor

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

store

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of storen

Anagrams

• roest, roste, stoer

French

Etymology

Latin storea (“mat”), via regional Italian stora (modern Italian stuoia).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st??/

Noun

store m (plural stores)

1. blind, shade (for a window)

Descendants

• ? Catalan: estor
• ? Galician: estor
• ? German: Store
• ? Portuguese: estore

Further reading

• “store” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

References

Anagrams

• resto, rotes, sorte, tores, torse

Latvian

Noun

store f (5th declension)

1. sturgeon

Declension

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman stor, estour, ultimately from Latin instaurare.

Alternative forms

• stor, stoure, storre, stour, stoor, stoore

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st??r/

Noun

store (uncountable)

2. supplies, provisions
3. livestock, farm animals
4. (stored) possessions, savings
5. collection, storage
6. storehouse, storeroom
7. value, importance

Descendants

• English: store
  • Tok Pisin: stua
    • ? Rotokas: sitoa
  • ? Afrikaans: stoor
• Scots: store

References

• “st?r(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.

Etymology 2

From Old English st?r and Old Norse stórr, from Proto-Germanic *st?raz; some forms are also influenced by Middle Dutch stuur.

Alternative forms

• stoor, stour, stur, sture, storre, stowre, stoore, stoure

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sto?r/, /stu?r/, /st??r/

Adjective

store

2. strong, powerful, intense
3. violent, threatening, imposing
4. stern, sharp, harsh
5. numerous, large in number
6. large, big, great
7. coarse, rough

Descendants

• English: stoor, stour (archaic)
• Scots: stour, stoure, sture, stoor, stoar

References

• “st??r(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.

Adverb

store

1. violently, threateningly, imposingly
2. sternly, sharply, harshly

References

• “st??re, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.

Etymology 3

From Old English st?r; possibly from a Celtic language.

Alternative forms

• stor, stoure

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sto?r/

Noun

store

2. incense, frankincense, storax

References

• “st??r(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

store

1. definite singular of stor
2. plural of stor

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

store

1. definite singular of stor
2. plural of stor

Swedish

Adjective

store

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of stor.

Anagrams

• orets, rotes, teros

English

Alternative forms

• (obsolete) abundaunce
• (obsolete) habundance
• (obsolete) boundance
• (card games) abondance

Etymology

• From Middle English abundaunce, habaundance, from Old French habundance, abondance, from Latin abundantia (“fullness, plenty”), from abund? (“to overflow”). See abound.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??b?n.dn?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??b?n.dn?s/, /??b?n.dn?ts/, /??bn?.dn?s/
• (Malaysia, Singapore) IPA^(key): /??b?n.d?nts/

Noun

abundance (countable and uncountable, plural abundances)

1. A large quantity; many. [First attested around 1150 to 1350.]

2. An overflowing fullness or ample sufficiency; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; plentifulness. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
   • c. 1610?, Walter Raleigh, A Discourse of War

     It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been shed with small benefit to the Christian state.

3. Wealth; affluence; plentiful amount of resources. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
4. Frequency, amount, ratio of something within a given environment or sample. [First attested in the late 19^th century.]
5. (card games) A bid to take nine or more tricks in solo whist. [First attested in the late 19^th century.]

Usage notes

• Synonym notes: Abundance, Plenty, Exuberance. These words rise upon each other in expressing the idea of fullness.
  • Plenty denotes a sufficiency to supply every want; as, plenty of food, plenty of money, etc.
  • Abundance express more, and gives the idea of superfluity or excess; as, abundance of riches, an abundance of wit and humor; often, however, it only denotes plenty in a high degree.
  • Exuberance rises still higher, and implies a bursting forth on every side, producing great superfluity or redundance; as, an exuberance of mirth, an exuberance of animal spirits, etc.

Synonyms

• abundation (Chester)
• (large quantity): heap, load; see also Thesaurus:lot
• (ample sufficiency): exuberance, copiousness, overflow, plenty, plenteousness, plenitude, plentitude; see also Thesaurus:excess
• (plentiful amount of resources): riches, affluence, wealth; see also Thesaurus:wealth

Related terms

• abound
• abundant

Translations

References

• abundance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English abundaunce, from Old French habundance, from Latin abundantia. Equivalent to abund +? -ance.

Noun

abundance (plural abundances)

1. An abundance; enough.

References

• Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.