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storehouse

American  
[stawr-hous, stohr-] / ˈstɔrˌhaʊs, ˈstoʊr- /

noun

storehouses plural
  1. a building in which things are stored.

    Synonyms:
    depot, warehouse
  2. any repository or source of abundant supplies, as of facts or knowledge.


storehouse British  
/ ˈstɔːˌhaʊs /

noun

  1. a place where things are stored

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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noun

Etymology

Origin of storehouse

First recorded in 1300–50, storehouse is from the Middle English word storhous. See store, house

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Yasuo Yamamoto grew up playing hide-and-seek between old barrels in the storehouse where his family has been brewing soy sauce for more than 150 years.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

Temple Mills railway storehouse in east London is the only depot in the UK able to accommodate the larger trains used in continental Europe and which is already linked to the cross-Channel line.

From BBC • Oct. 30, 2025

His notebooks, bursting with images and anecdotes of real-life folks whose stories caught his attention, provided a storehouse for his plays.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2025

Hoping to learn more about Darwin’s ancient megafauna, I headed to a storehouse linked to Uruguay’s National Museum of Natural History.

From Salon • Aug. 23, 2024

And, worst of all, the storehouse and all the food in it has been destroyed.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

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