storeroom

noun

store·​room ˈstȯr-ˌrüm How to pronounce storeroom (audio)
-ˌru̇m
1
: a room or space for the storing of goods or supplies
2

Examples of storeroom in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Soko means storeroom The space that’s now home to Soko was a liquor storeroom prior to it being transformed into the stylish jewel box. Leslie Kelly, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2024 Their leader dead, the surviving volunteers could not unlock the community storeroom where many of their guns were kept. Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023 Elsewhere in England, curators at Hampton Court Palace identified a biblical scene by Artemisia Gentileschi that had spent some 200 years in a storeroom, its significance overlooked due to discoloration and overpainting by later artists. Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023 Location: Online Image credit: Scribes of the Cairo Geniza Scribes of the Cairo Geniza Presented by: Zooniverse Get a glimpse into the daily life of ancient Egypt with first-hand records from an ancient storeroom in Cairo. Scistarter Team, Discover Magazine, 11 Dec. 2023 The Bruce collection is a trove of stuff that Hemingway left in a storeroom behind Sloppy Joe's Bar on Key West in 1939. Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 8 Oct. 2023 The majority of those items had not been on display but rather kept in a storeroom and used for academic and research purposes. Karla Adam, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023 On a bet with a rich collector, the story’s narrator, Jerry Phelan, agrees to remain in a locked basement storeroom with this priceless treasure. Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 13 July 2023 In the fashion world, where resale was once a synonym for used or unwanted clothing and unsold merchandise sometimes burned, the clogging of supply chains and growing conversation around sustainability caused some designers to reuse fabrics long abandoned on storeroom shelves. New York Times, 3 Jan. 2022

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Word History

First Known Use

1685, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of storeroom was in 1685

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“Storeroom.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/storeroom. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

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storeroom

noun
store·​room -ˌrüm How to pronounce storeroom (audio)
-ˌru̇m
: a room for the storing of goods or supplies

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