storeroom

noun

store·​room ˈstȯr-ˌrüm 

-ˌru̇m

1

: a room or space for the storing of goods or supplies

2

: storehouse sense 2

Examples of storeroom in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In the back storeroom of the Olivera Egg Ranch in San Jose, Ed Olivera Jr., 76, gazed at miniature sepia and grey-tone photographs in an album splayed open on a long steel table. —Jia H. Jung, The Mercury News, 22 Feb. 2025

Since then, countless attempts to patch the pipe and plug the leaks have failed, though repair crews have flooded the facility’s boiler room and uncovered asbestos piping beneath a storeroom in the process. —Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 15 Feb. 2025

And the doors off to the side, to storerooms or toilets, were like submarine doors, with a big black gasket around them. —Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025

Christopher Fahey, a storeroom specialist who helps handle and install artworks and artifacts, tells the New York Post’s Raquel Laneri that hanging work by fellow staffers has been a job highlight. —Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Nov. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1685, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for storeroom

• anteroom
• assume
• backroom
• ballroom
• barroom
• bathroom
• bedroom
• boardroom
• bridegroom
• classroom
• cloakroom
• consume

Kids Definition

storeroom

noun

store·​room -ˌrüm 

-ˌru̇m

: a room for the storing of goods or supplies