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noun

Store n.

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. "The ships are fraught with store of victuals." "With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and give the prize."

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. (U.S. & British Colonies)

4.

pl. 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. "His swine, his horse, his stoor, and his poultry."

In store, in a state of accumulation; in keeping; hence, in a state of readiness. "I have better news in store for thee."

Store clothes, clothing purchased at a shop or store; in distinction from that which is home-made. (Colloq. U.S.)

Store pay, payment for goods or work in articles from a shop or store, instead of money. (U.S.)

To set store by, to value greatly; to have a high appreciation of.

To tell no store of, to make no account of; to consider of no importance.

Synonyms: Fund; supply; abundance; plenty; accumulation; provision. Store, Shop. The English call the place where goods are sold (however large or splendid it may be) a shop, and confine the word store to its original meaning; viz., a warehouse, or place where goods are stored. In America the word store is applied to all places, except the smallest, where goods are sold. In some British colonies the word store is used as in the United States. "In his needy shop a tortoise hung, An alligator stuffed, and other skins Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves A beggarly account of empty boxes." "Sulphurous and nitrous foam,... Concocted and adjusted, they reduced To blackest grain, and into store conveyed."

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"In store" Quotes from Famous Books

... She saw great Faustus lay the ghost of Wit; Exulting Folly hailed the joyous Day, And Pantomime and Song confirmed her sway. But who the coming changes can presage, And mark the future periods of the Stage? Perhaps if skill could distant times explore, New Behns, new Durfeys, yet remain in store; Perhaps, where Lear has raved, and Hamlet died, On flying cars new sorcerers may ride; Perhaps (for who can guess th' effects of chance?) Here Hunt may box, or ...

— The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals, Volume 2. • Lord Byron

... the act of carrying the steaming dishes as Estelle went to her seat. She was so much stronger that she could manage to sit through a meal, supported by cushions and the arms of her chair. Jack told her he had a great treat in store for her, provided she ate a good dinner. Watching her face as he spoke, with its varying colour and delicate ...

— Chatterbox, 1906 • Various

... was the custom at all great houses, though more in England and France than in poverty-stricken Scotland, the Earl of Douglas had in store an abundant supply of tents, some of them woven of arras and ornamented with cloth of gold, others of humbler ...

— The Black Douglas • S. R. Crockett

... their owing him money and envying his prosperity. It was such as these who aroused the stupid and brutal animosity of the Muras against the whites. The negro, on obtaining this news, set off alone in a montaria on a six hour journey in the dead of night to warn his "compadre" of the fate in store for him, and thus gave him time to fly. It was a pleasing sight to notice the cordiality of feeling and respect for each other shown by these two old men; for they used to spend hours together enjoying the cool breeze, ...

— The Naturalist on the River Amazons • Henry Walter Bates

... Valentine, but say what you will, I can never renounce the sentiment which has instinctively taken possession of my mind. I feel as if it were ordained that this man should be associated with all the good which the future may have in store for me, and sometimes it really seems as if his eye was able to see what was to come, and his hand endowed with the power of directing events according ...

— The Count of Monte Cristo • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

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