Boutique vs. Store

Published: 8 Sep, 2021

Boutiquenoun

A small shop, especially one that sells fashionable clothes, jewelry and the like.

Storenoun

A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.

‘This building used to be a store for old tires.’;

Boutiquenoun

A small shop located within a larger one.

Storenoun

A supply held in storage.

Boutiquenoun

A film production company making only a few movies per year.

Storenoun

(mainly North American) A place where items may be purchased.

‘I need to get some milk from the grocery store.’;

Boutiqueadjective

Specialized in bespoke or custom-made products or services for clientele in a niche market.

‘a boutique law firm’;

Storenoun

Memory.

‘The main store of 1000 36-bit words seemed large at the time.’;

Boutiquenoun

a shop that sells women's clothes and jewelry

Storenoun

A large amount of information retained in one's memory.

‘His vast store of jokes means he has something funny to say in every situation.’;

Boutique

A boutique (French: [butik]) is . The word is French for , which derives ultimately from the Greek ἀποθήκη (apothēkē) or .The term boutique and also designer refer (with some differences) to both goods and services which are containing some element that is claimed to justify an extremely high price.

‘a small store that sells stylish clothing, jewellery, or other usually luxury goods’; ‘shop’; ‘storehouse’;

Storenoun

A great quantity or number; abundance.

Storeverb

(transitive) To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.

‘I'll store these books in the attic.’;

Storeverb

To write (something) into memory or registers.

‘This operation stores the result on the stack.’;

Storeverb

(intransitive) To remain in good condition while stored.

‘I don't think that kind of cheese will store well in the refrigerator.’;

Storenoun

That which is accumulated, or massed together; a source from which supplies may be drawn; hence, an abundance; a great quantity, or a great number.

‘The ships are fraught with store of victuals.’; ‘With store of ladies, whose bright eyesRain influence, and give the prize.’;

Storenoun

A place of deposit for goods, esp. for large quantities; a storehouse; a warehouse; a magazine.

Storenoun

Any place where goods are sold, whether by wholesale or retail; a shop.

Storenoun

Articles, especially of food, accumulated for some specific object; supplies, as of provisions, arms, ammunition, and the like; as, the stores of an army, of a ship, of a family.

‘His swine, his horse, his stoor, and his poultry.’; ‘In his needy shop a tortoise hung,An alligator stuffed, and other skinsOf ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelvesA beggarly account of empty boxes.’; ‘Sulphurous and nitrous foam, . . . Concocted and adjusted, they reducedTo blackest grain, and into store conveyed.’;

Storeadjective

Accumulated; hoarded.

Storeverb

To collect as a reserved supply; to accumulate; to lay away.

‘Dora stored what little she could save.’;

Storeverb

To furnish; to supply; to replenish; esp., to stock or furnish against a future time.

‘Her mind with thousand virtues stored.’; ‘Wise Plato said the world with men was stored.’; ‘Having stored a pond of four acres with carps, tench, and other fish.’;

Storeverb

To deposit in a store, warehouse, or other building, for preservation; to warehouse; as, to store goods.

Storenoun

a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services;

‘he bought it at a shop on Cape Cod’;

Storenoun

a supply of something available for future use;

‘he brought back a large store of Cuban cigars’;

Storenoun

an electronic memory device;

‘a memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached’;

Storenoun