noun pl. repositories -·ries

1. a box, chest, closet, or room in which things may be placed for safekeeping
2. Now Rare a building for exhibiting objects; museum
3. a burial vault; sepulcher
4. any thing or person thought of as a center of accumulation or storage a repository of information
5. a person to whom something is entrusted or confided; confidant

Etymology: LME repositorie < L repositorium < repositus, pp. of reponere, to put back < re-, back + ponere, to place: see position

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