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storeroom

nounB1+Common in everyday speech and writing · #6,655 of 15,258leans spoken

Other forms: storerooms

A storeroom is a room where things are kept until needed. The back storeroom, lock the storeroom, a cluttered storeroom.

Every organisation has one that nobody has emptied for years, which is where the genuinely useful and the entirely useless sit side by side. It is a different word from a storage unit, which is rented rather than part of a building.

Wilfredor · CC0

Definitions of storeroom

  1. 1nounstoreroomA room where things are kept until needed.B1+

    “Extra chairs and tables are kept in the storeroom behind the hall.”

storeroom is a room.

Where it comes from

Store plus room, from Old French estorer, to supply or stock.

From store + room.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

storeroom in the wild

  • A detached building with the jackaroo quarters, laundry and storeroom is found behind the main building.

    Meeberrie

  • Emanuel's Lutheran Church was organized in a Montra storeroom in 1860 with a membership of sixteen families.

    Emanuel Lutheran Church of Montra

  • The current clubhouse was opened in 1995 and an additional storeroom was built in 2013.

    Dundrum Cricket Club

  • The ground floor contained a storeroom and magazine.

    Martello tower (Hambantota)

  • Originally, the building housed a hardware store on the main floor, a storeroom on the second floor, and a saloon in the basement.

    Hardware Building (Wadena, Iowa)

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.