storehouse

«storehouse» in Mova's school dictionary: a building where food, goods or supplies are kept — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a storehouse, storehouses)

meaning for a pupil

1) A storehouse is a building where food, goods or supplies are kept. tree →

2) A storehouse of something is a place or person full of a lot of it: a storehouse of knowledge. tree →

3) (Bible) In Bible stories storehouses hold grain for hard times, as in the story of Joseph in Egypt. tree →

sense in the lessons

In history and Bible lessons storehouses kept grain so people would not starve in famine. In figurative speech a library or a grandparent can be «a storehouse of stories». Phrases: a storehouse of, grain storehouse.

examples

• The farmers kept the wheat in a big storehouse. tree →
• The castle had a storehouse full of food for the winter. tree →
• Christians read that Joseph filled the storehouses of Egypt before the famine. tree →
• Our library is a storehouse of knowledge. tree →
• Gran is a storehouse of old stories. tree →
• The squirrels' nest was a little storehouse of nuts. tree →
• You had better take the body to the storehouse. tree →

note

Countable noun. Close words: warehouse, store, barn, granary. «Warehouse» is the modern business word.

In the corpora

• He gathereth the waters of the sea together as a heap; He layeth up the deeps in storehouses.
• To Obed-edom southward; and to his sons the Storehouse.
• Eastward were six Levites, northward four a day, southward four a day, and for the Storehouse two and two.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «storehouse» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.