storehouse
noun/ˈstɔː(ɹ)haʊs/
Etymology
From store + house.
- inherited from husen
- derived from *(s)kews-✻
- inherited from *hūs✻
- inherited from hous
Definitions
A building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions.
- Jacobsen's theory about the empty storehouse is still valid, for a myth never has one meaning only; a myth is a polyphonic fugue of many voices.
A single location or resource where a large quantity of something can be found.
- This old book is a genuine storehouse of useful cooking tips.
- Three days passed. Carrados was not unendurably bored, for his mind was an inexhaustible storehouse […]
- To most people, the huge ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland are merely water that once was snow. To glaciologists and climatologists, they are storehouses of the Earth's former atmospheres.
A mass or quantity laid up.
- enrich the storehouse of his powerfull wit
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To lay up in store.
- the mental storehousing of information
The neighborhood
- neighborhouse
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at storehouse. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at storehouse. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at storehouse
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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