STOWAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stowage mean? 

• STOWAGE (noun)
  The noun STOWAGE has 3 senses:

1. the charge for stowing goods

2. a room in which things are stored

3. the act of packing or storing away

  Familiarity information: STOWAGE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STOWAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The charge for stowing goods

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("stowage" is a kind of...):

charge (the price charged for some article or service)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A room in which things are stored

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

storage room; storeroom; stowage

Hypernyms ("stowage" is a kind of...):

room (an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stowage"):

chandlery (a storeroom where candles are kept)

lumber room (a storeroom in a house where odds and ends can be stored (especially furniture))

buttery; larder; pantry (a small storeroom for storing foods or wines)

stock room; stockroom (storeroom for storing goods and supplies used in a business)

strongroom (a burglarproof and fireproof room in which valuables are kept)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The act of packing or storing away

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

stowage; stowing

Hypernyms ("stowage" is a kind of...):

storage (the commercial enterprise of storing goods and materials)

Derivation:

stow (fill by packing tightly)

 Context examples 

I find he was right, however; for it has not only lasted to the present moment, but has done so in the teeth of a great parliamentary report made (not too willingly) eighteen years ago, when all these objections of mine were set forth in detail, and when the existing stowage for wills was described as equal to the accumulation of only two years and a half more.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)