STORE
What does "STORE" mean?
A place where goods are sold to the public.
Meanings
- A retail establishment where merchandise is sold. The corner store stays open until midnight.
- A supply or stock of something kept for future use. The squirrels built up a store of acorns for winter.
- To keep or accumulate something for future use. We store the firewood under a tarp behind the shed.
- To retain data in a computer's memory or on a storage device. The app stores your settings locally on the phone. technical
Did you know?
- When you 'set great store by' something, you are using the oldest English sense of store - a stock or hoard of value - a usage running back to the 1400s, long before store meant a shop.
Word origin
From Old French 'estor', meaning provisions or supplies, from the verb 'estorer' (to build, furnish), from Latin 'instaurare', to restore or renew.
Remember it
A STORE STOREs goods - the shop is literally a place that stores things to sell.
A little poem
Shelves of plenty under buzzing light-
we store the day, then close it for the night.
couplet
Wordplay
- Why did the data go to the store? It heard that's where everything gets stored.
What it teaches
What you store quietly today becomes the supply you draw on when the cold arrives.
Quick facts
What does STORE mean?
A place where goods are sold to the public.
Is STORE a valid word?
Yes — STORE is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is STORE?
STORE has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does STORE come from?
From Old French 'estor', meaning provisions or supplies, from the verb 'estorer' (to build, furnish), from Latin 'instaurare', to restore or renew.
What can STORE teach us?
What you store quietly today becomes the supply you draw on when the cold arrives.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.