noun
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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The Princess of Wales has visited the Victoria and Albert Museum's storehouse in East London, seeing a project that wants to make the museum's huge collection available to a wider range of people.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2025
Hoping to learn more about Darwin’s ancient megafauna, I headed to a storehouse linked to Uruguay’s National Museum of Natural History.
From Salon • Aug. 23, 2024
Testing the technique in fruit flies, the researchers found that 51 proteins voyaged from the animals’ muscles to their heads and 269 moved from the fat body, the insects’ main energy storehouse, to their legs.
From Science Magazine • May 22, 2024
For Switzerland, whose glaciers and snowpack form a crucial storehouse for European water supplies, the effect has been especially alarming.
From New York Times • Jan. 15, 2023
And, worst of all, the storehouse and all the food in it has been destroyed.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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