From Middle English store, stoure, storre, from Anglo-Norman stor, estore, estorr, estoer, and Old French estour, estor, from Latin īnstaurō.

• (America) enPR: stôr, IPA: /stɔɹ/
• (RP) enPR: stô, IPA: /stɔː/
• (rhotic, non-horse-hoarse) enPR: stōr, IPA: /sto(ː)ɹ/
• (non-rhotic, non-horse-hoarse) IPA: /stoə/

store (plural stores)

1. A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.

   This building used to be a store for old tires.

2. A supply held in storage.
   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[13]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC ↗:

     But there was an infinite store of mercy in those eyes, for him too a word of pardon even though he had erred and sinned and wandered.

   • 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC ↗:

     By late summer a sufficient store of stone had accumulated, and then the building began […] , under the superintendence of the pigs.

3. (mainly North American) A place where items may be purchased; a shop.

   I need to get some milk from the grocery store.

4. (computing, dated) Memory.

   The main store of 1000 36-bit words seemed large at the time.

5. A great quantity or number; abundance.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 37”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC ↗:

     I make my love engrafted to this store.

   • a. 1645, John Milton, “L'Allegro”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC ↗:

     With store of Ladies, whose bright eies
     Rain influence, and judge the prise
     Of Wit, or Arms, while both contend
     To win her Grace, whom all commend.

6. A head of store cattle (feeder cattle to be sold to others for finishing); a store cattle beast.

• (supply held in storage) stock, supply
• (place from which items may be purchased) boutique, shop (UK); see also Thesaurus:retail store
• (in computing) memory

• storage

• French: entrepôt
• German: Lager, Speicher
• Italian: magazzino, deposito
• Portuguese: depósito
• Russian: склад
• Spanish: depósito, almacén, bodega

• French: stock
• German: Vorrat, Lagerbestand
• Italian: scorta
• Portuguese: estoque
• Russian: запа́с
• Spanish: existencias, reservas, provisión, provisiones

store (stores, present participle storing; simple past and past participle stored)

1. (transitive) To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.

   Coordinate terms: lay aside, lay away, lay by, lay in, lay up, put aside, put away, put by, save, store away, store up

   I'll store these books in the attic.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC ↗:

     The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.

2. To contain.

   The cabinets store all the food the mice would like.

3. Have the capacity and capability to contain.

   They sell boxes that store 24 mason jars.

4. (transitive, computing) To write (something) into memory or registers.

   This operation stores the result on the stack.

5. (transitive) To stock, to fill (a container, repository, etc.) with things.

• French: stocker
• German: lagern
• Italian: immagazzinare
• Portuguese: armazenar, guardar
• Russian: храни́ть
• Spanish: almacenar

• French: stocker
• German: speichern
• Italian: registrare
• Russian: храни́ть
• Spanish: almacenar

• French: conserver
• German: sich halten
• Italian: conservare
• Russian: сохраня́ться
• Spanish: conservar