Other forms: warehouses, warehousing, warehoused
A warehouse is a big plain building where goods wait — stacked on pallets, racked up on steel shelving, under strip lights, until a lorry takes them out to the shops. It is where your parcel sits between the order and the doorstep.
It is a working word and it brings a working vocabulary with it: warehouse staff, a warehouse worker, a distribution warehouse, a cash-and-carry warehouse where you buy in bulk. There is a verb as well — to warehouse goods is to store them — and companies now warehouse data in the same breath. In cities, old brick warehouses get turned into flats, which is where warehouse conversion and warehouse party come from. Keep it apart from shop: a warehouse holds the stock, a shop sells it. It is written as one word, never ware house.
1nounwarehouseA large building where goods are stored before being sold or sent out.
“The order left the warehouse on Thursday morning.”
synonyms: storehouse, depot
2verbstoreTo store goods in a warehouse.
“The furniture will be warehoused until the shop reopens.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
warehouse is a building.
Also accepted in games: storehouse
From ware + house.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA