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
Example Sentences
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"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
Temple Mills railway storehouse in east London is the only depot in the UK able to accommodate the larger trains used in continental Europe and which is already linked to the cross-Channel line.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2025
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
Syrio would never have sat silent in that storehouse nor shuffled along meekly among the other captives.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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
Surpluses were held in large storehouses to feed the armies and provide sustenance in times of famine.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
As night fell, it seemed as if the storm was likely holding storehouses of rain in reserve.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2022
And if no agreement can be reached, strife spreads, even if the storehouses are bulging.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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