noun
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Etymology
Origin of storehouse
First recorded in 1300–50, storehouse is from the Middle English word storhous. See store, house
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English Heritage, which runs the castle, said the storehouse was believed to date from between 1489 and 1540.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
"I remember that as a child I climbed up there, all the way to the main roof tile," former salt farmer Omer Hot said, gesturing at the seven-metre-high storehouse roof.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
He kept saying that our soy sauce couldn’t be made without this storehouse, its earthen walls, earthen floors and wooden vats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
His notebooks, bursting with images and anecdotes of real-life folks whose stories caught his attention, provided a storehouse for his plays.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2025
Nhamo went to the hozi, the communal storehouse, to fetch mealies.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
According to a U.S. military official, the U.S. would be able to send certain munitions “almost immediately” to Ukraine because storehouses exist in Europe.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2024
Old stockyards and abandoned red-brick storehouses are gradually filling with hipster bars and coffee shops, galleries and artisanal-everything shops.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2023
Photographs released by the emergencies ministry showed a fire burning among crumpled metal buildings that appeared to be storehouses, and a badly damaged fire-fighting vehicle.
From Reuters ● Jul. 21, 2023
New gods such as Soma, associated with magical elixirs, storehouses for grain, and the moon, grew in importance as the practice of ritual became ever more meaningful.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Its priests and nobles would be fed the last grains of the storehouses.
From "The Ugly One" by Leanne Statland Ellis
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