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

If the jury sides with Kaley, it would upset decades of legal and cultural precedent that have treated platforms as mere repositories of human nature.

From BBC

You can make the argument that museums are repositories of the greatest human achievements worth recording and sharing.

From The Wall Street Journal

Instead of writing, he became an accumulator of a vast amount of other writers’ work — in his library as well as the repository in his head.

From Los Angeles Times

The three firms collect credit records on borrowers, though their data repositories somewhat differ.

From The Wall Street Journal

You can find articles validating whatever you think in the online repository of human information on the internet that is readily available to anyone with a smart phone.

From Salon

Related Words

• archive
• depository
• storehouse