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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
storehouse
noun
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
hen house/coach house/storehouse etc
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Go and be a hanger-on at Henry's storehouses, and pick up what grain you can.
▪ He wanted to instill the habit of absorbing information; he wanted them to build up a storehouse of knowledge.
▪ It was only three minutes down the road, and Jim always had a storehouse of odds and ends.
▪ Or to put it differently, he saw in nature a storehouse of artistic forms.
▪ Our history - national and imperial - provides a wonderful storehouse of film drama.
▪ She looked around like a person hopeless of finding one small item in a huge storehouse.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Storehouse

Storehouse \Store"house`\, n.

  1. A building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions; a magazine; a repository; a warehouse.

    Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto Egyptians.
    --Gen. xli. 56.

    The Scripture of God is a storehouse abounding with estimable treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
    --Hooker.

  2. A mass or quality laid up. [Obs.]
    --Spenser.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
storehouse

mid-14c., from store (n.) + house (n.). Figurative use from 1570s.

Wiktionary
storehouse

n. 1 A building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions; a magazine; a repository; a warehouse. 2 (by extension) A single non-geographical place where a large quantity of something can be found. 3 (context obsolete English) A mass or quantity laid up. vb. (context transitive English) To lay up in store.

WordNet
storehouse

n. a depository for goods; "storehouses were built close to the docks" [syn: depot, entrepot, storage, store]

Wikipedia
Storehouse

Storehouse may refer to:

  • Storehouse plc, a British retail conglomerate
  • Storehouse (charity), a compassion outreach for the homeless and poor administered by Southend Vineyard Church
  • An alternative word for warehouse
Storehouse (charity)

The Storehouse is a name regularly used for compassion outreaches of Vineyard Churches in the United Kingdom and the US. The Storehouse Program in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, United Kingdom is a particularly successful operation in terms of the numbers who visit it regularly for access to free food, clothes and showers. These services are intended for people in hardship. Up to 20% of the service users registered with Storehouse in Southend are believed to be homeless.

The Southend-on-Sea Storehouse project is a project/ministry of Southend Vineyard, a church and registered charity.

Southend Vineyard, whose logo includes their stated aim of 'reaching out, changing lives' (the same mission of the Storehouse) initiated a Storehouse outreach program in 1995 on a shoe-string budget. By 2008 Southend Vineyard's Storehouse Program had stabilised and was based in a small shop on Station Road, Westcliff-on-Sea and served approximately 250 regulars. These people came to use the food services - food was given to people in need for no charge - the food was often donated (either close to sell-by date or just past this date) by Bakers Oven and Sainsbury's Southend.

In 2008/2009, Storehouse (Southend-on-Sea) moved from Station Road, Westcliff-on-Sea, to the former Coleman Street Community Centre, in Coleman Street, Southend, Essex. Southend Vineyard was given a 10 year lease to run its Storehouse program there, with the hope that the Storehouse could also reactivate the community centre which had been closed for some years before Southend Vineyard/Storehouse took up the tenancy.

Christmas Day 2008 saw the first community event, with doors open to Southend-on-Sea, especially those lonely, or in poverty or suffering addictions.

Since that day, the client base of the Storehouse has increased from 250 to over 5100 registered users (January 2013) demonstrating the effect of the recent recession on demand for free food bags. Storehouse (Southend-on-Sea) has also offered information and links to essential services and agencies for its service users, as well as informal learning opportunities, community meetings and surgeries. The Storehouse also provides a community cafe three days per week for those using the centre.

In 2011 the Storehouse began to deliver a personal development programme known as 'Starting Points' which was planned to promote self-esteem, build confidence, and improve life skills amongst the service user group. Starting Points it's funded through the National Lottery's Reaching Communities Program. Starting Points confidence courses and workshops run on a four weekly basis with a variety of activities including workshops, therapeutic gardening and volunteering within The Storehouse day centre.

2011 also saw the start of a new service called Family Storehouse. Delivered on Tuesdays, the new service was intended to help parents and young families who needed access to food, advice and essential services, but were considered unlikely to use the regular services because of concerns relating to the safeguarding of children. This service is now supported by Children's Centres and it incorporates a parent and toddler group.

In 2013 The Storehouse operates with 6 staff, Project Manager John Williams, Operations Manager Darryl Faulkner, Community Outreach Worker Gill Ioannis, Family Worker Paula Terris-Pennycott, Volunteer Development Worker Louise Harris, Community Training Worker Chris Saunders and Key Worker Louise Frood. The Storehouse is supported by a team of more than 50 volunteers.

Category:Charities based in Essex Category:Christian charities based in the United Kingdom

Usage examples of "storehouse".

In the same way Thackeray keeps up a running comment on his men and women, and these bits of philosophy make his novels a storehouse of apothegms, which may be read again and again with great profit and pleasure.

How I envied those bricks wrapped in newspaper, those storehouses and bestowers of warmth!

There had been some violence against Mirayans as the city fell and the slaves rose up against their masters, but now Brek and Duprey were overseeing the situation, locking the Mirayan men in the watchhouse and their families in various storehouses.

Early in August we were brought from Bridgewater to Taunton, where we were thrown with hundreds of others into the same wool storehouse where our regiment had been quartered in the early days of the campaign.

There seemed the less objection to their doing so since this tract of country, though traversed once both by Buller and by French, had still remained a stronghold of the Boers and a storehouse of supplies.

I would have expected him to expound upon the events, explaining them with his great storehouse of knowledge and wisdom.

After inspecting the whole site he found an abandoned mastaba that some predecessor had provided with a door, probably with the idea of using the structure as a storehouse.

What she knew she did have in place of a higher understanding was a storehouse of tales, anecdotes, snapshots, punch lines, and plaints from assorted humans at their most vulnerable and bizarre.

It was the illimitable storehouse or Pleroma, out of which is evolved the endless circle of phenomenal change.

Beside the Thames the stink of the silt mixed with the sweeter exhalations of the molasses, sugar and rum in the jumble of decrepit storehouses and manufactories that pressed up from the quays, together with the acrid tangs of the sea-wrack and snails exposed by the ebbing tide.

Her hull rode high in the water, and the shadows of her cutched sails swept fleetly over the workmen squatting on quays or thrumming up the planks to the storehouses, humping barrels of Icelandic cod or sacks of English wool.

Kindly note that these rates apply from date of delivery to the storehouse entrance, to date of reshipment from the same point.

The storehouses were rectangular, with steep roofs that had a wide overhang on all sides, and screened ventilators at the ends.

The sennit from the canoes and the sennit from the storehouse writhed together in one monstrous, irretrievably snarled up monument to the infinite feline capacity for disorder.

While I wondered what would bring so many together thus early, there came a sound of flutes--for these people can do nothing without piping like finches in a thicket in May--and from the storehouses half-way over to the harbour there streamed a line of carts piled high with provender.