storehouse
/ˈstɔː(ɹ)haʊs/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.68 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions.
Example Sentences
- "(obsolete)"
- "Jacobsen's theory about the empty storehouse is still valid, for a myth never has one meaning only; a myth is a polyphonic fugue of many voices."
- "This old book is a genuine storehouse of useful cooking tips."
- "Three days passed. Carrados was not unendurably bored, for his mind was an inexhaustible storehouse […]"
- "To most people, the huge ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland are merely water that once was snow. To glaciologists and climatologists, they are storehouses of the Earth's former atmospheres."
- "enrich the storehouse of his powerfull wit"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *steh₂u-ro- Proto-Italic *stauros Latin *staurō Latin īnstaurō Proto-Italic *-āzi ▲ Latin -ereinflu. Latin -āre Latin īnstaurāreder. Anglo-Norman storbor. Middle English store English store Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH-der.? Proto-Germanic *hūsą Proto-West Germanic *hūs Old English hūs Middle English hous English house English storehouse From store + house.