Repository definition

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repositories
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A place where things may be put for safekeeping.
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One that contains or is a store of something specified.
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A warehouse.
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Acting gradually over a period of time.
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(now rare) A building for exhibiting objects; museum.
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A person to whom something is entrusted or confided; confidant.
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A museum.
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The definition of a repository is a place where things are stored for safe keeping, or where there is an ample supply of something, or a person or thing with a lot of information about something.

A building where weapons are stored is an example of a repository for weapons.

An area where there are vast amounts of diamonds is an example of a place where there are repositories of diamonds.

A person who has extensive details on his family's history is an example of a repository of information.

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A box, chest, closet, or room in which things may be placed for safekeeping.
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Any thing or person thought of as a center of accumulation or storage.

A repository of information.

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A burial vault; a tomb.
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A burial vault; sepulcher.
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A location for storage, often for safety or preservation.
  • (computing) The central location of files in a source control system.
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A burial vault.
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A person to whom a secret is entrusted.
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One who is entrusted with secrets or confidential information.
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Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:
repository
Plural:
repositories

Origin of repository

  • From Late Latin repositorium.

    From Wiktionary

Repository Sentence Examples

  • The temple itself became the chief repository of records.

  • His special interest in Christian Greek was partly the cause of his editing in 1877 The Apologies of Justin Martyr, " which" (to use his own words) "I used unblushingly as a repository for my syntactical formulae."

  • The poem had accompanied him from early manhood to the end and was the repository for the fullest "confession" of his life; it is the poetic epitome of his experience.

  • Eusebius' biography of Constantine shows what distortion of fact the father of Church history permitted himself, but the Ecclesiastical History was fortunately written for those who wanted to know what really happened, and remains to-day an invaluable repository of Christian antiquities.

  • At first his literary activity was limited to sectional publications, and he addressed his public, now as editor and now as leading contributor, in the Monthly Repository, the Christian Reformer, the Prospective, the Westminster and the National Review.

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