store

1. 1.

   keep or lay aside for future use

   “store grain for the winter”

   “The bear stores fat for the period of hibernation when he doesn't eat”

   Synonymshive awaylay input insalt awaystack awaystash away

   Broaderkeep

   Narrowerbincomputerizevictualroll uphive
2. 2.

   find a place for and put away for storage

   “where should we stow the vegetables?”

   “I couldn't store all the books in the attic so I sold some”

   Broaderkeep

   Narrowergarnerkeepmothballrepositwharftankloftwarehousegarage

Other forms of store

plural

stores·

past tense

stored·

present participle

storing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about store

What does store mean?

store means "a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in store?

store has 1 syllable: store. In IPA it is /ˈstɔɹ/.

What is another word for store?

Close synonyms include shop, stock, fund, memory, computer memory. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is store a common word?

store is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with store?

3 words rhyme with store. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.