storehouse

plural storehouses · alternative archaic store-house

1. A building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions.

   (obsolete)

   1 more example

   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.

   1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 175

   Synonyms: magazine, repository, warehouse, depository, conservatory

2. broadlyfigurativelyA single location or resource where a large quantity of something can be found.

   This old book is a genuine storehouse of useful cooking tips.

   2 more examples

   Three days passed. Carrados was not unendurably bored, for his mind was an inexhaustible storehouse […]

   1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries

   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.

   1988 April 14, Richard Fifield, “Frozen assets of the ice cores”, in New Scientist, number 1608, page 28

3. obsoleteA mass or quantity laid up.

   enrich the storehouse of his powerfull wit

   1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC

present singular third person storehouses · participle present storehousing · participle past storehoused · past storehoused · alternative archaic store-house

1. transitiveTo lay up in store.

   the mental storehousing of information