repository
[ri-poz-i-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee]
- a receptacle or place where things are deposited, stored, or offered for sale: a repository for discarded clothing.
- an abundant source or supply; storehouse: a repository of information.
- a burial place; sepulcher.
- a person to whom something is entrusted or confided.
- Chiefly British. warehouse.
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Origin of repository
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Contemporary Examples
Outdated views on family honor—which see women as its repository—have a lot to answer for.
Nobody could object to the way in which the cases were carried from the elevator and set upon stanchions at the repository.
And yet that just contributed to the local lore of the state as a repository for rugged Americana.
The library was so enormous that it was too large for any repository to digest and was therefore sold off over several years.
Historical Examples
It is a repository of knowledge as to early science and philosophy.
Understanding the ScripturesFrancis McConnell
Italy was, and still is, the repository of all the chief MSS.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1William Painter
His book is a repository of the most startling facts of this description.
Fragments of science, V. 1-2John Tyndall
As may be imagined he was a repository of much valuable and varied information.
In Eastern SeasJ. J. Smith
He was the friend, confidant, and repository of all their troubles.
Charles Frohman: Manager and ManIsaac Frederick Marcosson and Daniel Frohman
repository
- a place or container in which things can be stored for safety
- a place where things are kept for exhibition; museum
- a place where commodities are kept before being sold; warehouse
- a place of burial; sepulchre
- a receptacle containing the relics of the dead
- a person to whom a secret is entrusted; confidant
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Word Origin
C15: from Latin repositōrium, from repōnere to place
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Word Origin and History for repository
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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