storehouse

noun
/ˈstɔː(ɹ)haʊs/

Etymology

From store + house.

  1. inherited from husen
  2. derived from *(s)kews-
  3. inherited from *hūsą — “house
  4. inherited from *hūs
  5. inherited from hūs — “dwelling, shelter, house
  6. inherited from hous
  7. formed as storehouse — “store + house

Definitions

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. A mass or quantity laid up.

    • enrich the storehouse of his powerfull wit
  4. + 1 more definition
    1. To lay up in store.

      • the mental storehousing of information

The neighborhood

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.

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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.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA