Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

storeful

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: store-ful
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An amount that fills a store.

Example Sentences

"Nationals guard a million storesful of employes from temptation."
"A storeful of books is a storeful of ideas, adventure, excitement and beauty."
"At the appointed hour, with the assistant manager holding a stopwatch and a storeful of patrons to cheer her on, she was given a shopping cart and five minutes to fill it with anything she wanted from the shelves."
"That very morning, Mr. Lamoreaux had forced a skinny old shoplifter to empty three tins of Underwood deviled ham spread from his pockets onto my conveyor belt in front of a whole storeful of customers."
"I steel myself for the reality of no swallows and storefuls of swallow kitsch."
"But I tell you what you've got a storeful of when you're old – the past."

Etymology

From store + -ful.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: store

Inflected Forms

storefuls (plural) storesful (plural)

Questions

What does storeful mean?: An amount that fills a store.
Where does storeful come from?: From store + -ful.

How to pronounce storeful

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