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store — {{11}}store (n.) c.1300, that with which a household, camp, etc. is stored, from STORE (Cf. store) (v.). Sense of sufficient supply (of anything) is attested from late 15c. The meaning place where goods are kept for sale is first recorded 1721 in … Etymology dictionary
boughten — [bôt′ n] adj. Dial. bought at a store and not homemade … English World dictionary
store-bought — adjective purchased; not homemade my boughten clothes a store bought dress • Syn: ↑boughten • Similar to: ↑factory made * * * ˈ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ adjective … Useful english dictionary
boughten store-bought — factory made factory made adj. made in a factory. Contrasted with {homemade}. [Narrower terms: {boughten, store bought ; {mass produced ] [WordNet 1.5] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
store — Synonyms and related words: Indian reservation, acceptation, acception, accommodate, accumulate, accumulation, acquiescence, afford, aggregate, amass, archives, armory, arsenal, assemble, assurance, assuredness, attic, backlog, bag, bank, bank on … Moby Thesaurus
boughten — /bawt n/, adj. Northern and North Midland U.S. Nonstandard. store bought. [1785 95; BOUGHT + EN3] * * * … Universalium
boughten — bought•en [[t]ˈbɔt n[/t]] adj. chiefly dial. dial. sts store bought • Etymology: 1785–95 … From formal English to slang
American and British English differences — For the Wikipedia editing policy on use of regional variants in Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Manual of style#National varieties of English. This is one of a series of articles about the differences between British English and American English, which … Wikipedia
ready made — Synonyms and related words: assembled, bespoke, bought, boughten, built, cast, constructed, crafted, created, custom, custom built, custom made, cut and dried, cut and dry, extracted, fabricated, fashioned, forged, formed, gathered, grown,… … Moby Thesaurus
factory-made — adj. made in a factory. Contrasted with {homemade}. [Narrower terms: {boughten, store bought ; {mass produced ] [WordNet 1.5] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
