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Definitions for storehouse
ˈstɔrˌhaʊs, ˈstoʊr-; -ˌhaʊ zɪzstore·house

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. storehouse, depot, entrepot, storage, storenoun

    a depository for goods

    "storehouses were built close to the docks"

Wiktionary

  1. storehousenoun

    A building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions; a magazine; a repository; a warehouse.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Storehousenoun

    Magazine; treasury; place in which things are hoarded and reposited against a future time.

    Etymology: store and house.

    By us it is willingly confessed, that the Scripture of God is a storehouse abounding with inestimable treasures of wisdom and knowledge, in many kinds over and above things in this kind barely necessary. Richard Hooker.

    They greatly joyed merry tales to feign,
    Of which a storehouse did with her remain. Fairy Queen.

    Suffer us to famish, and their storehouses cramm’d with grain! William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

    Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians. Gen. xli. 56.

    To these high pow’rs a storehouse doth pertain,
    Where they all arts and gen’ral reasons lay;
    Which in the soul, ev’n after death, remain,
    And no Lethean flood can wash away. Davies.

    My heart hath been a storehouse long of things
    And sayings laid up, portending strange events. Parad. Reg.

    The image of God was resplendent in man’s practical understanding, namely that storehouse of the soul, in which are treasured up the rules of action and the seeds of morality. Robert South, Sermons.

    As many different sounds as can be made by single articulations, so many letters there are in the storehouse of nature. William Holder.

ChatGPT

  1. storehouse

    A storehouse is a place or structure where goods, supplies, or equipment are stored for future use. It may refer to a physical building, such as a warehouse or granary, or a digital space for storing information or data.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Storehousenoun

    a building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions; a magazine; a repository; a warehouse

  2. Storehousenoun

    a mass or quality laid up

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of storehouse in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of storehouse in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of storehouse in a Sentence

  1. Charles Baudelaire:

    A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

  2. Terrill Schrock:

    It's like a museum, it's a storehouse of historical information, cultural information, ecological information. When a language like that dies, you could liken it to a library burning down. Losing a window to the past that will never be recovered in the future.

  3. Robert Blumenschine:

    Not only is Africa the storehouse of the ancient fossil heritage for people the world over, it was also the wellspring of everything that makes us human, including our technological prowess, our artistic ability and our supreme intellect.

  4. George Washington Carver:

    I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this earth to give us a breathing spell. As we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which is God's true storehouse and can never be exhausted. We can learn to synthesize material for every human need from things that grow.

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