Synonyms of stores

stores 1 of 2

noun

plural of store

1

as in reserves

a collection of things kept available for future use or need

her husband has a store of old magazines that he has been collecting for years

Synonyms & Similar Words

• reserves
• supplies
• hoards
• caches
• collections
• deposits
• funds
• banks
• arsenals
• reservoirs
• stockpiles
• budgets
• stocks
• armories
• nest eggs
• pools
• accumulations
• gatherings
• assemblages

2

as in hoards

a supply stored up and often hidden away

keeps a store of quarters in the glove compartment for the parking meters

Synonyms & Similar Words

• hoards
• stashes
• stockpiles
• caches
• collections
• funds
• savings
• provisions
• inventories
• deposits
• resources
• reservoirs
• treasures
• coffers
• harvests
• pools
• sinking funds
• stocks
• reserves
• nest eggs
• accumulations
• gatherings
• repertories
• assemblages

3

as in shops

an establishment where goods are sold to consumers

go to the grocery store for orange juice and eggs

Synonyms & Similar Words

• shops
• markets
• outlets
• marketplaces
• bazaars
• emporiums
• boutiques
• showrooms
• exchanges
• marts
• chain stores
• department stores
• superstores
• variety stores
• thrift shops
• dime stores
• supercenters
• mini-marts
• big boxes
• five-and-tens

4

as in loads

a considerable amount

we laid by a store of food for the party

Synonyms & Similar Words

• loads
• dozens
• tons
• deals
• hundreds
• quantities
• piles
• bundles
• lots
• chunks
• bunches
• masses
• stacks
• plenties
• rafts
• wealths
• slews
• abundances
• buckets
• volumes
• yards
• truckloads
• myriads
• heaps
• packs
• all kinds (of)
• mountains
• bushels
• quite a bit
• scads
• barrels
• reams
• shiploads
• carloads
• sights
• pots
• boatloads
• gobs
• oodles
• good deals
• fistfuls
• basketfuls
• sheaves
• multiplicities
• wads
• pecks
• potfuls
• scores
• much
• thousands
• messes
• plenitudes
• platefuls
• profusions
• lashings
• floods
• passels
• spates
• surpluses
• multitudes
• millions
• plagues
• plentitudes
• rashes
• hosts
• swarms
• seas
• hordes
• crowds
• epidemics
• excesses
• flocks
• armies
• redundancies
• throngs
• bonanzas
• overflows
• droves
• overages
• herds
• superfluities
• legions
• oversupplies
• embarrassments
• presses
• zillions
• mobs
• crushes
• trillions
• overmuch
• deluges
• surfeits
• overabundances
• bevies
• superabundances
• plethoras
• gazillions
• overkills
• jillions
• crams
• kazillions

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• spots
• shades
• tastes
• molecules
• bits
• shadows
• fragments
• grains
• ounces
• atoms
• strains
• granules
• handfuls
• particles
• peanuts
• touches
• hints
• traces
• streaks
• rays
• specks
• mites
• nips
• dots
• scraps
• scruples
• drams
• licks
• sprinkles
• suspicions
• pinches
• dabs
• sections
• glimmers
• pieces
• mouthfuls
• aces
• shreds
• crumbs
• flecks
• motes
• drops
• portions
• pittances
• shots
• driblets
• little
• dashes
• shortages
• morsels
• smidgens
• sprinklings
• scintillas
• modicums
• tittles
• lacks
• flyspecks
• wants
• jots
• smatters
• whits
• deficiencies
• smatterings
• nubbins
• iotas
• deficits
• scarcities
• absences
• famines
• inadequacies
• insufficiencies
• dearths
• undersupplies
• poverties
• paucities

stores

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of store

1

as in keeps

to place somewhere for safekeeping or ready availability

we decided to store the lawn mower in the shed instead of the garage

Synonyms & Similar Words

• keeps
• houses
• warehouses
• packs
• stows
• shelves
• reposits
• garages
• files
• cellars
• puts up
• hangars

2

as in stashes

to put (something of future use or value) in a safe or secret place

squirrels commonly store nuts in the hollows of trees and other places to prepare for the winter

Synonyms & Similar Words

• stashes
• hoards
• treasures
• accumulates
• collects
• stockpiles
• caches
• acquires
• conserves
• sets aside
• stows
• saves
• piles
• lays in
• preserves
• deposits
• lays up
• stacks
• keeps
• gathers
• squirrels (away)
• lays away
• salts away
• banks
• assembles
• lays by
• puts by
• stocks
• retains
• reserves
• amasses
• husbands
• heaps
• scrapes (together)
• garners
• rounds up
• concentrates
• coffers
• holds
• picks up
• conceals
• buries
• withholds
• secretes
• sets by
• ensconces

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• dumps
• ditches
• discards
• casts
• unloads
• consumes
• throws out
• throws away
• flings (off or away)
• wastes
• spends
• hands out
• runs through
• uses up
• hands over
• surrenders
• relinquishes
• squanders
• blows
• dissipates
• jettisons
• depletes
• exhausts
• lavishes
• expends
• impoverishes
• disperses
• scatters
• dispels
• misspends
• fritters (away)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of stores

Noun

Sullivan lives in a small fishing town called Petersburg where there’s no traffic lights and no big-box stores. — Rebecca Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026

Blistering heat has also raised demand for air conditioning, driving up natural gas consumption at a time when stores need to be refilled ahead of winter. — Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026

Those tickets were sold at a 7-Eleven in Dedham and at Cumberland Farms stores in Attleboro and Granby. — Mike Toole, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026

But phantom squatting targets anyone looking for advice about stores, banks, etc. — David Berreby, IEEE Spectrum, 13 Aug. 2026

The video then cuts to Viva posing in front of billboards and posters, including advertisements on the subway, clothing and hair ads, an app advertisement on a truck, a Pandora jewelry billboard and numerous advertisements for clothing stores. — Angelique Brenes, PEOPLE, 13 Aug. 2026

Donations will help fill two new stores planned to open this year as Goodwill South Florida expands its retail footprint, according to Lithgow. — Kari Barnett, Sun Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2026

The affected jalapeños were sourced from Coast Citrus Distributors and sent to restaurants in the United States, including Chipotle and Qdoba, which both pulled the ingredient from their stores nationwide, per the CDC. — Melina Khan, USA Today, 13 Aug. 2026

Last year, she was named CEO of Ulta—the country’s largest beauty retailer with some 1,500 stores. — Preston Fore, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2026

Verb

Michael Haskell stores much of his inventory in the garage of his mother's home in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. — Sarah Jackson valentina Duarte, CNBC, 12 Aug. 2026

The measure stores a unique encryption key in a silicon-resident fortress that’s built into the device running the browser. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 11 Aug. 2026

Leonardo’s SignalTrace product page says the system stores electronic fingerprints for later queries and can recognize a vehicle without seeing its license plate. — Nicole M. Bennett, The Conversation, 11 Aug. 2026

The models found a flaw in it that nobody knew existed, used that to reach the open internet, and worked their way to Hugging Face, a company that stores AI software for thousands of developers. — Craig S. Smith, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2026

CyberGuy previously reported that a Washington judge ruled Flock license plate reader images can qualify as public records, even when a private company stores the files for a city. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 30 July 2026

The vehicle also includes an onboard battery system that stores electrical energy and can provide exportable power at forward operating locations. — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 24 July 2026

The surprisingly spacious material easily stores your essentials, including your phone, keys, wallet, sunglasses, and more. — Caroline Hughes, Travel + Leisure, 14 July 2026

Flock processes and stores data on the customer's behalf, with access and sharing controlled locally. — Irene Wright, USA Today, 8 July 2026