Warehouse
nounA large building used for storing goods or merchandise.
How to spell warehouse
9 letters · 2 syllables
How to pronounce warehouse
Say the part in capitals loudest.
What does warehouse mean?
- nounA large building used for storing goods or merchandise.
- verbTo store goods in a large building until they are needed.
Warehouse in a sentence
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noun
The delivery driver collected the pallets from the warehouse before dawn.
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verb
The firm decided to warehouse the surplus furniture until spring.
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noun
The company leased a bigger warehouse to hold its growing stock.
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verb
They warehouse imported wine in a temperature-controlled unit.
Where does warehouse come from?
Language of origin: Germanic
Warehouse is a transparent native compound, built from two old English words. The first part, 'ware', comes from Old English 'waru', meaning goods or merchandise offered for sale, the same element that survives in 'hardware', 'software', and 'silverware'. The second part, 'house', descends from Old English 'hus', a dwelling or building, with cousins across the Germanic languages such as Dutch 'huis' and German 'Haus'. Joined together in the late medieval period, the compound named a building set aside for storing trade goods, and that commercial sense has stayed remarkably stable ever since. Because both halves are familiar everyday words, the spelling holds no real surprises; the only thing to watch is the silent linking that keeps 'ware' whole before 'house'.
How the word is built
- ware (goods for sale)
- house (building)
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