STORES Synonyms: 310 Similar and Opposite Words

stores 1 of 2

noun

plural of store

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

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as in hoards

a supply stored up and often hidden away keeps a store of quarters in the glove compartment for the parking meters

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as in shops

an establishment where goods are sold to consumers go to the grocery store for orange juice and eggs

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as in loads

a considerable amount we laid by a store of food for the party

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stores

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of store

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

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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

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Recent Examples of stores

Noun

New stores will open across tier-one to tier-three cities in the world’s second-largest economy. —

Bloomberg, 26 Mar. 2026 The retailer, with stores in Southlake, Farmers Branch, Plano and Dallas, announced the news on social media on Wednesday. —

Fousia Abdullahi, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Mar. 2026 What was once two city blocks of dingy industrial warehouses is now an alluring complex of stores, cafes, artist studios and event space meant to attract Fort Lauderdale’s burgeoning population of young professionals and South Floridians willing to drive from Miami and West Palm Beach. —

Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 25 Mar. 2026 Though Dario Vitale is no longer at Versace—his departure was announced at the end of last year—his inaugural collection for the house has just arrived in stores, and in technicolor fashion. —

Laura Jackson, Vogue, 25 Mar. 2026 Flaherty’s father owns two Handel’s ice cream stores (everyone wants to hang out with Flaherty on a hot day). —

Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2026 Marco’s Pizza is headquartered in Toledo, Ohio, but has over 1,200 stores in 35 states and locations in Puerto Rico, the Bahamas and Mexico, the company said in a March 4 press release. —

Saleen Martin, USA Today, 25 Mar. 2026 The goal for the territory is to open 10 stores within five years, according to Hawkins. —

Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 25 Mar. 2026 And one of those stores, a restaurant called Taste Cheesesteak Bar, has never even opened. —

Charlotte Observer, 25 Mar. 2026

Verb

Maribel does housekeeping for an Airbnb, and MindShiftED stores its equipment in a shed on the property for free. —

Noah Alcala Bach, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Mar. 2026 The analysis relied on data from the Commercial Pattern Archive, a digital database that stores tens of thousands of images of dress patterns dating back to the 1840s as well as runway photos. —

K. R. Callaway, Scientific American, 18 Mar. 2026 Amazon says the Bee bracelet never stores audio recordings at any point, and that all conversations are processed in real time and then discarded. —

Brian Cheung, NBC news, 16 Mar. 2026 The Northbrook fire budget has increased significantly because the village is building a new fire station and a new fleet maintenance garage, which stores fire vehicles covered under the Fire Department budget, Warchol said. —

Phil Rockrohr, Chicago Tribune, 10 Mar. 2026 Its Millennium Seed Bank stores the seeds of more than 40,000 wild plant species. —

Amy Waldman, Travel + Leisure, 9 Mar. 2026 In addition, Incogni stores information needed for custom data removal on 2,000 more sites. —

Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine, 5 Mar. 2026 Papa Johns closing hundreds of locations It is not immediately known which stores the pizza chain intends to close or when the closures will take place. —

James Powel, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2026 It is not immediately known which stores the pizza chain intends to close or when the closures will take place. —

Jordan Green, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 27 Feb. 2026

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Noun

Anavitarte says the city dipped into cash reserves to launch its in-house sanitation service.

— Monique John, CBS News, 25 Mar. 2026
The groups also cautioned that the proposal could allow mining in areas with varying levels of environmental protection — such as biosphere reserves and forest reserves — that are not explicitly excluded, increasing pressure on fragile ecosystems in the Amazon basin.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 24 Mar. 2026