Basic Details
Word: Warehouse
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: A large building where goods are stored before they are sold or sent out.
Synonyms: storehouse, godown, depot, store
How to Spell Warehouse
Syllables: ware - house
Tricky part: The first part is ware, meaning goods, not wear or where. Students write wearhouse or werehouse.
Watch out for: wearhouse, werehouse, warhouse
Memory tip: Ware means goods, as in kitchenware and software. A warehouse is a house for wares.
Usage Examples
Example 1: The online shop sends every order from its warehouse near Bhiwandi.
Example 2: Sacks of wheat were piled to the roof of the government warehouse.
Example 3: A fire in the warehouse destroyed thousands of school notebooks.
Fun Fact
In India a warehouse is often called a godown, a word English borrowed through Portuguese from the Malay gudang.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Makeup
Only one of these compound words is spelt correctly. Choose it:
a) cupbored
b) storeroome
c) staircaise
d) warehouse
Show answer
d) warehouse. Ware and house join with no change, while staircase, cupboard and storeroom have each been bent out of shape.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters in the sentence:
The trucks unloaded crates of mangoes at the huge eshoarwue beside the highway.
a) farmhouse
b) workhouse
c) warehouse
d) storehouse
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c) warehouse. Storehouse needs a t, farmhouse an f and an m, and workhouse a k; the jumble has a w, an a and two e's.
Word Cookie
Fill in the missing letters to complete the word:
w_reh_use
a) o, o
b) a, a
c) e, o
d) a, o
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d) a, o. The first part is ware with an a, and the second is the ordinary word house.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What would you expect to find in a warehouse?
a) boxes of goods waiting to be sent out
b) patients waiting for a doctor
c) a family eating dinner together
d) students at a morning assembly
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a) boxes of goods waiting to be sent out
2. The ware in warehouse means ____.
a) a kind of fence
b) to put on clothes
c) goods for sale
d) in which place
Show answer
c) goods for sale
