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repository


noun, plural re·pos·i·tor·ies.

  1. a receptacle or place where things are deposited, stored, or offered for sale: a repository for discarded clothing.
  2. an abundant source or supply; storehouse: a repository of information.
  3. a burial place; sepulcher.
  4. a person to whom something is entrusted or confided.
  5. Chiefly British. warehouse.

noun plural -ries

  1. a place or container in which things can be stored for safety
  2. a place where things are kept for exhibition; museum
  3. a place where commodities are kept before being sold; warehouse
  4. a place of burial; sepulchre
  5. a receptacle containing the relics of the dead
  6. a person to whom a secret is entrusted; confidant
n.

late 15c., “vessel, etc., for storage,” Middle French repositoire or directly from Late Latin repositorium “store,” in classical Latin, “a stand on which food is placed,” from noun use of repositus, past participle of reponere “put away, store” (see repose (v.2)). Figurative use is recorded from 1640s.

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