In the Svelte component framework, a store is where you can keep a part of your application state accessible to multiple places of your component hierarchy, or even to code outside your components. Your Svelte components can react to changes in your stores just as if they were local variables. Stores are covered in greater detail in the tutorial (6 parts; click Next for each part).
Svelte provides implementations of writable, readable, & derived stores for you, but you can also implement your own stores that follow the store contract. Svelte Society maintains a listing of packages that add further capabilities to stores.
Use this tag for questions about creating and using Svelte stores, and accessing them in your Svelte components.