repository

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: re=pos=i=tor=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

repository, n. [L. repositorium, repostorium: cf. OF. repositoire.].

 A place where things are or may be reposited, or laid up, for safety or preservation; a depository.  Locke.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

repository, n. (pl. -ies)
1 a place where things are stored or may be found, esp. a warehouse or museum.
2 a receptacle.
3 (often foll. by of) a a book, person, etc. regarded as a store of information etc. b the recipient of confidences or secrets.

Etymology

obs. F repositoire or L repositorium (as REPOSE(2))

THESAURUS

repository

Fort Knox, acquaintance, advocate, alter ego, archives, armory, arsenal, attic, backer, bank, basement, bay, best friend, bin, bonded warehouse, bookcase, bosom friend, box, brother, bunker, bursary, buttery, cargo dock, cash register, cashbox, casual acquaintance, cellar, chest, close acquaintance, close friend, closet, coffer, coin box, confidant, confidante, conservatory, crate, crib, cupboard, depository, depot, dock, drawer, dump, exchequer, familiar, favorer, fellow, fellow creature, fellowman, fisc, friend, glory hole, godown, gold depository, hold, hutch, inseparable friend, intimate, library, locker, lover, lumber room, lumberyard, magasin, magazine, money chest, neighbor, other self, partisan, penny bank, pickup, piggy bank, pork barrel, public crib, public till, public treasury, public trough, rack, repertory, reservoir, rick, safe, safe-deposit box, shelf, stack, stack room, stock room, storage, store, storehouse, storeroom, strong room, strongbox, subtreasury, supply base, supply depot, supporter, sympathizer, tank, till, treasure house, treasure room, treasure-house, treasury, vat, vault, warehouse, well-wisher, wine cellar

ROGET THESAURUS

repository

Store

N store, stock, fund, mine, vein, lode, quarry, spring, fount, fountain, well, wellspring, milch cow, stock in trade, supply, heap, treasure, reserve, corps de reserve, reserved fund, nest egg, savings, bonne bouche, crop, harvest, mow, vintage, store, accumulation, hoard, rick, stack, lumber, relay, storehouse, storeroom, storecloset, depository, depot, cache, repository, reservatory, repertory, repertorium, promptuary, warehouse, entrepot, magazine, buttery, larder, spence, garner, granary, cannery, safe-deposit vault, stillroom, thesaurus, bank, armory, arsenal, dock, gallery, museum, conservatory, menagery, menagerie, reservoir, cistern, aljibar, tank, pond, mill pond, gasometer, budget, quiver, bandolier, portfolio, coffer, conservation, storing, storage, keep, file (papers), lay in, preserve, Adj, stored, in store, in reserve, in ordinary, spare, supernumerary, adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit.