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

Former homes are now occupied by spice warehouses and stores selling antiques and handicrafts. — ABC News, 7 Aug. 2026

Refill stores and zero waste shops around the Bay Area are also stocked with alternatives. — Anne Makovec, CBS News, 7 Aug. 2026

Find a souvenir in the high-end boutiques on Montana Avenue, the independent shops and vintage stores along Main Street or the brand-name peddlers at Santa Monica Place. — Carrie Bell, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026

Macy’s closed its location there in 2016 as part of a group of 40 stores that closed nationwide. — Emily Holshouser, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Aug. 2026

The pets were bought from different stores, and the cases were all among children under the age of 3. — Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2026

The smaller-format Belk Market stores combine traditional Belk apparel with national and private labels specific to those stores. — Charlotte Observer, 6 Aug. 2026

The highway span was the exact ground covered last year by Sunshine Perez, who had made two trips to liquor stores to buy Patron tequila before driving the wrong way onto a Turnpike exit ramp. — Brittany Wallman, Miami Herald, 31 July 2026

At the time of the acquisition, Petsense had 136 stores across 23 states. — Gabe Hauari, Florida Times-Union, 30 July 2026

Verb

Nine days earlier, OpenAI disclosed that its own models had broken out of a testing environment and compromised Hugging Face, the platform where much of the open machine learning world stores its models and datasets. — Ashish Bhatia, Forbes.com, 1 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

The work is being presented as the first report of a material that stores energy by physically rebuilding itself. — New Atlas, 3 July 2026

As of Tuesday morning, the fire at the Boyle Heights Storage Facility, which stores frozen food, is still ongoing, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 23 June 2026

Regalis stores it at 28 degrees to preserve its freshness. — The Editors, Robb Report, 20 June 2026