REPOSITORY
Dictionary entry overview: What does repository mean?
• REPOSITORY (noun)
The noun REPOSITORY has 3 senses:
1. a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping
2. a person to whom a secret is entrusted
3. a burial vault (usually for some famous person)
Familiarity information: REPOSITORY used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• REPOSITORY (noun)
Meaning:
A facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
depositary; depository; repository; deposit
Hypernyms ("repository" is a kind of...):
facility; installation (a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry)
Meronyms (parts of "repository"):
storage space (the area in any structure that provides space for storage)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "repository"):
archive (a depository containing historical records and documents)
depot; entrepot; storage; store; storehouse (a depository for goods)
sperm bank (a depository for storing sperm)
repertory (a storehouse where a stock of things is kept)
museum (a depository for collecting and displaying objects having scientific or historical or artistic value)
lost-and-found (repository in a public building where lost articles can be kept until their owners reclaim them)
depository library; library (a depository built to contain books and other materials for reading and study)
drop (a central depository where things can be left or picked up)
bank; bank building (a building in which the business of banking transacted)
treasury (a depository (a room or building) where wealth and precious objects can be kept safely)
Meaning:
A person to whom a secret is entrusted
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
repository; secretary
Hypernyms ("repository" is a kind of...):
confidant; intimate (someone to whom private matters are confided)
Meaning:
A burial vault (usually for some famous person)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
monument; repository
Hypernyms ("repository" is a kind of...):
burial chamber; sepulcher; sepulchre; sepulture (a chamber that is used as a grave)
