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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storehouse/#m1)

2) A storehouse of something is a place or person full of a lot of it: a storehouse of knowledge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storehouse/#m2)

3) (Bible) In Bible stories storehouses hold grain for hard times, as in the story of Joseph in Egypt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storehouse/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storehouse/#x1)
- The castle had a storehouse full of food for the winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storehouse/#x2)
- Christians read that Joseph filled the storehouses of Egypt before the famine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storehouse/#x3)
- Our library is a storehouse of knowledge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storehouse/#x4)
- Gran is a storehouse of old stories. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storehouse/#x5)
- The squirrels' nest was a little storehouse of nuts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storehouse/#x6)
- You had better take the body to the storehouse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storehouse/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.490/)
- [To Obed-edom southward; and to his sons the Storehouse.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.921/)
- [Eastward were six Levites, northward four a day, southward four a day, and for the Storehouse two and two.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.923/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «storehouse» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storehouse/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.