storenoun [ C ]
uk/stɔːr/us/stɔːr/store noun [ C ] (SHOP)
B1 UK a large shop where you can buy many different types of goods:
a department store
a DIY/furniture store
A1 US any type of shop:
a clothing/liquor store
also UK a department store
also UK a furniture store
a convenience store
More examples
- He's got a job demonstrating kitchen equipment in a department store.
- The company's flagship store is in New York.
- Bathroom furnishings are in the basement of the store, Sir.
- After the grocery store I took a left.
- The store is open for late night shopping on Wednesdays.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Shops & auctions
- army disposals store
- army surplus store
- army-navy store
- art gallery
- auction
- department store
- discount store
- discount warehouse
- druggist
- drugstore
- megastore
- milk bar
- newsagent
- newsstand
- off-licence
- swap meet
- sweet shop
- tabletop sale
- tag sale
- thrift store
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store noun [ C ] (STH KEPT)
an amount of something that is being kept for future use:
He has an impressively large store of wine in his cellar.
Food stores are reported to be running dangerously low in the capital.
figurative My grandmothers store of memories was shared over the dinner table.
a building in which things are kept until they are needed:
a grain/weapons store
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Keeping and storing things
- appropriate
- aside
- bank
- capture
- cling
- cling (on) to sth
- earmark
- lay
- lay sth in
- maintain
- pack sth away
- put sth away
- repository
- reserve
- stockpile
- storage
- store sth up
- stow
- stow (sth) away
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You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:
Collecting and amassing
Buildings for storing things
Idiom(s)
in store
set great, little, etc. store by sth
storeverb [ T usually + adv/prep ]
uk/stɔːr/us/stɔːr/B2 to put or keep things in a special place for use in the future:
The data is stored on a hard disk and backed up on a CD.
I stored my possessions in my mother's house while I was living in Spain.
I've stored my thick sweaters and jackets (away) until next winter.
Squirrels store (up) nuts for the winter.
More examples
- What we lack in this house is space to store things.
- It's important to store perishable food in a cool place.
- Sound and pictures can be stored digitally, as on a CD.
- The owner's name and address is stored on a microchip and implanted in the dog's body.
- The gas is stored under pressure .
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Keeping and storing things
- appropriate
- aside
- bank
- capture
- cling
- cling (on) to sth
- earmark
- lay
- lay sth in
- maintain
- pack sth away
- put sth away
- repository
- reserve
- stockpile
- storage
- store sth up
- stow
- stow (sth) away
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Phrasal verb(s)
store sth up