repository

American  

[ri-poz-i-tawr-ee] / rɪˈpɒz ɪˌtɔr i /

noun

PLURAL

repositories

1. a receptacle or place where things are deposited, stored, or offered for sale.

   a repository for discarded clothing.

   Synonyms:

   depository , storehouse , depot

2. an abundant source or supply; storehouse.

   a repository of information.

3. a person to whom something is entrusted or confided.

4. a burial place; sepulcher.

5. Informal, repo.  Computers.  a collection of stored data or software, or the place where it is stored, often a proprietary site in the cloud.

   The company hosts a cloud-based repository to help software developers store, track, and manage changes to their code.

6. Chiefly British.  warehouse.

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repository British  

/ rɪˈpɒzɪtərɪ, -trɪ /

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of repository

1475–85; < Latin repositōrium that in which anything is placed; reposit, -tory ²

Example Sentences

His Greenwich Village apartment, previously home to Bernstein, was a repository of books and recordings, which he had turned into the first Institute of Jazz Studies in 1952.

From The Wall Street Journal

The last version was posted on arXiv, a global repository for unpublished science research, in December.

From The Wall Street Journal

Musk's company xAI launched Grokipedia last month to compete with Wikipedia -- a crowdsourced information repository authored by humans that the billionaire and others on the American right have repeatedly accused of ideological bias.

From Barron's

One was already in place—the Marquand Library, Princeton’s distinguished 500,000-volume repository of art history—and could not be moved.

From The Wall Street Journal

Until now, biomedical scientists needed enormous computing resources to search through these vast genetic repositories and compare them with their own data, making comprehensive searches nearly impossible.

From Science Daily

Related Words

• archive
• depository
• storehouse