store – English noun declension

English noun forms of store

Noun: store
Singularstore
Pluralstores

Sample Sentences

  • Near-synonyms: storeroom, stockroom, warehouse, magazine (archaic)
  • This building used to be a store for old tires.
  • And his subjects wrung all they could wring
  • Out of temple and palace and store. [1936, Robert Frost, “The Vindictives”, in A Further Range:]
  • Near-synonyms: stock, supply; cache, stash
  • They keep a store of canned goods in their basement.
  • They could eat from their stores for a month or two if need be.
  • But there was an infinite store of mercy in those eyes, for him too a word of pardon even though he had erred and sinned and wandered. [1922 February, James Joyce, “[13]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:]
  • By late summer a sufficient store of stone had accumulated, and then the building began[…], under the superintendence of the pigs. [1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:]
  • What surprised us all was how Will's lighthearted nature and constant store of good humor won over one of the great heiresses of King Henry's court, Anne Bourchier. [2006, Carolly Erickson, The Last Wife of Henry VIII:]
  • Dad went to the store to get milk and bread.
  • There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store, an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […].” [1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in Twelve O'Clock:]
  • In 1866 Colonel J. F. Meline noted that the rebozo had almost disappeared in Santa Fe and that hoop skirts, on sale in the stores, were being widely used. [1948, Carey McWilliams, North from Mexico: The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 75:]
  • The main store of 1000 36-bit words seemed large at the time.
  • I make my love engrafted to this store. [1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 37”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:]
  • With store of Ladies, whose bright eies
  • Rain influence, and judge the prise
  • Of Wit, or Arms, while both contend
  • To win her Grace, whom all commend. [a. 1645, John Milton, “L’Allegro”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC:]
  • heifers and stores
  • She saw that there were cattle grazing on two of the fields between her and the river. Whether they were the fields next to the bank she could not be sure, because she could not see the river itself, but from the distance and the fences she thought they must be. If they were a milking herd, it meant that twice a day someone would have to come from Calton and call them in and count heads and open gates for them, but she could not see from here if they were. At this time of the year the heifers and stores looked grown beasts at this distance. There was no one with them now. [2013 [1978], P. M. Hubbard, The Quiet River, republished edition, Orion Publishing Group, →ISBN:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
3. Proto-Italic *en
4. Proto-Italic *en-
5. Latin in-
6. Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-der.
7. Proto-Indo-European *steh₂u-ro-
8. Proto-Italic *stauros
9. Latin *staurō
10. Latin īnstaurō
11. Proto-Italic *-āzi
12. ▲
13. Latin -ereinflu.
14. Latin -āre
15. Latin īnstaurāreder.
16. Anglo-Norman storbor.
17. Middle English store
18. English store
19. Inherited from Middle English store, borrowed from Anglo-Norman stor, from Latin īnstaurāre, from īnstaurō + -āre.

Verbs referencing "store"

Irish Nouns stór, Zulu Nouns isitolo.