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Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : stawr, stohr
Phonetic Transcription : stɔr, stoʊr



Definition of stores

Origin :
  • mid-13c., "to supply or stock," from Old French estorer "erect, furnish, store," from Latin instaurare "restore," from in- "in" + -staurare, from a noun cognate with Greek stauros "pole, stake" (see steer (v.)). The meaning "to keep in store for future use" (1550s) probably is a back-formation from store (n.).
  • noun collection, supply
  • noun place for keeping supply
  • noun business establishment that sells goods
  • verb collect and put aside
Example sentences :
  • All our stores and equipment were carried across in the boats.
  • Extract from : « Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia » by Thomas Mitchell
  • "I pay them the same as the other stores do," he repeated, sullenly.
  • Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
  • We captured an immense amount of these stores, a portion of which we carried away.
  • Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • Thats all we needa house one side and stores the other, with a wall and two bastions.
  • Extract from : « The Field of Ice » by Jules Verne
  • Genoese and Venetian traders came with their stores of Eastern goods.
  • Extract from : « English Villages » by P. H. Ditchfield
  • Cleveland had then about two hundred inhabitants, and four stores.
  • Extract from : « Cleveland Past and Present » by Maurice Joblin
  • They covered the low ground with warehouses, and the bluffs with stores and residences.
  • Extract from : « Cleveland Past and Present » by Maurice Joblin
  • Since that time he has erected fifty dwelling-houses, and fourteen stores.
  • Extract from : « Cleveland Past and Present » by Maurice Joblin
  • There's gettin' out of stores as well as gettin' in, so there is.
  • Extract from : « The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys » by Gulielma Zollinger
  • Stores faced it on every side, and above the stores were the lawyers' offices.
  • Extract from : « The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys » by Gulielma Zollinger

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