lumber-room

The old house has a lumber-room full of forgotten furniture.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • A lumber-room is a room used for storing discarded or unused items, especially bulky or cumbersome objects that are no longer needed.

Usage Examples

• (A storage room for unwanted, bulky items.)
• (She removed the accumulated clutter from the storage room.)

Advanced Usage

• "to be consigned to the lumber-room": to be put away or discarded as no longer useful or relevant.
  • After the invention of the smartphone, the old rotary phone was consigned to the lumber-room. (It was stored away as obsolete.)

Variants and Related Words

• Lumber (n): disused or unwanted items; also, timber or wood that has been prepared for use.
  • The attic was full of lumber from previous generations. (Unwanted household items.)

Synonyms

• Storage room: a room for storing goods or supplies.
• Junk room: a room where miscellaneous, often worthless, items are kept.
• Closet: a small room or cupboard for storing things.

Related Idioms

• "to be in the lumber-room of history": an idiomatic expression meaning to be forgotten or considered unimportant by the passage of time.
  • Many old technologies now lie in the lumber-room of history. (They are no longer remembered or used.)