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Definition of Store

Store

  1. That which is accumulated, or massed together; a source from which supplies may be drawn; hence, an abundance; a great quantity, or a great number.
  2. A place of deposit for goods, esp. for large quantities; a storehouse; a warehouse; a magazine.
  3. Any place where goods are sold, whether by wholesale or retail; a shop.
  4. Articles, especially of food, accumulated for some specific object; supplies, as of provisions, arms, ammunition, and the like; as, the stores of an army, of a ship, of a family.
  5. Accumulated; hoarded.
  6. To collect as a reserved supply; to accumulate; to lay away.
  7. To furnish; to supply; to replenish; esp., to stock or furnish against a future time.
  8. To deposit in a store, warehouse, or other building, for preservation; to warehouse; as, to store goods.

Store Quotations

Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.
Dr. Seuss

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.
Mark Twain

I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake.
Mitch Hedberg

The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That's a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long.
Steve Jobs

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.
Douglas Adams
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Store Translations

store in Afrikaans is winkel
store in Danish is butik
store in Dutch is winkel
store in German is aufbewahren, speichern, Vorrat, Warenhaus
store in Italian is immagazzinare, campeggio, immagazzinare
store in Latin is recondo
store in Norwegian is butikk, forretning
store in Portuguese is loja
store in Spanish is almacenar, reten, silo, tienda

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