storeroom
storeroom — noun
1. a room inside a building where you keep things that you do not use every day — f
a room inside a building where you keep things that you do not use every day — for example, extra supplies, old furniture, or tools
Élise keeps the extra boxes in the storeroom behind the kitchen.
preposition: storeroom behind + [room]
Before the new term, Wren helped clean the school storeroom.
Minh found some old chairs in the storeroom under the stairs.
Baraka went to the storeroom to get more soap and towels.
The storeroom shelves were full of boxes, paper, and paint.
- storage room
the two-word form of the same concept, equally common in everyday language
- warehouse
much larger, usually a separate building for commercial or industrial storage
- closet
a small storage space, often built into a room rather than a separate room
- pantry
a room or cupboard specifically for food and kitchen supplies