Meaning & use
military storehouse
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Meaning
nouncountable
A building where an army keeps supplies such as food, clothing, fuel, or equipment.
Grammar: Countable: you can say 'a military storehouse' or 'military storehouses'.
Patterns
- a military storehouse for something
- store something in a military storehouse
The base has a large military storehouse near the airfield.
Blankets and boots were moved from the military storehouse to the front line.
An old military storehouse by the harbor now holds grain for the whole region.
Word forms
| plural | military storehouses |
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Common combinations
- a military storehouse
- They built a military storehouse beside the railway.
- inside the military storehouse
- Rations are counted inside the military storehouse every morning.
- convert a military storehouse
- The town converted a military storehouse into a museum.
- military storehouse supplies
- Trucks carried military storehouse supplies to the camp.
Synonyms and how they differ
- armory
- In US English this usually means a place where weapons are stored, a narrower meaning than 'military storehouse'.
- depot
- A depot can be military or civilian and often suggests a place where goods are received and sent out.
- warehouse
- A warehouse is any large storage building, not necessarily connected to the armed forces.
Word family
- storehouse noun
- A building where goods are kept; the general word without the military idea.
- store verb
- To keep something in a place until it is needed.
Commonly confused: military storehouse or store?
military storehouse vs store
In American English a 'store' is a shop, but as a verb it means to keep goods; 'storehouse' is the building.
Practice
The army keeps fuel and food in a large military ______ near the port.
Choose one answer.
'Storehouse' is the building where supplies are kept. 'Storefront' is the front of a shop, 'storeroom' is a small room in a house or office, and 'storage' is the act or space, not a building you can name this way.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “military storehouse”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.