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

Asteri has nine stores in Saudi Arabia, in addition to locations in other countries in the Middle East. — Kathryn Hopkins, Footwear News, 21 Aug. 2026

Aikman has started venturing into restaurants, coffee shops, stores and other public places with his weekend puppy raiser, Larry Nelson. — Nelly Carreño, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026

Home improvement stores Home Depot and Lowe’s reported $730 million and $80 million refunds, respectively. — Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2026

The growing list of products pulled from shelves includes items from Hardie's Fresh Foods, Taylor Farms, Whole Foods and NatureBest sold at stores like HEB, Hannaford, Kroger, Target, Trader Joe's, Walmart and Stop and Shop. — Melina Khan, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2026

The backlash extends beyond liquor stores, with Canadian travel to the United States falling sharply. — ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026

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

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

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

Hormonal changes during perimenopause can affect how the body stores fat. — Nicole Bennett, AJC.com, 21 Aug. 2026

Flywheel stores electricity mechanically Unlike batteries that store energy through chemical reactions, the Pulsar system stores electricity as mechanical energy. — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 19 Aug. 2026

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

Jason thus dismembers Cassidy’s corpse, wraps his bits up in tin foil, and stores them away in the freezer. — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 10 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