Definition of repositories Repositories
/ɹipɑˈzʌtɔˌɹiz/ - [reepazutoreez] - re•pos•i•tor•ies
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What does repositories mean?
Wiktionary 
- repositories (Noun)
Plural of repository.
Part of speech
🔤- repositories, noun, plural of repository.
WordNet
NounPlural: repositories |
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| repository - a burial vault (usually for some famous person) | ||
| monument | ||
| burial chamber, sepulcher, sepulchre, sepulture a chamber that is used as a grave | ||
| repository - a person to whom a secret is entrusted | ||
| secretary | ||
| repository - a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping | ||
| depository, deposit, depositary | ||
| installation, facility the act of installing something (as equipment); "the telephone installation took only a few minutes" | ||
| archive a depository containing historical records and documents | ||
| bank building, bank a flight maneuver; aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning); "the plane went into a steep bank" | ||
| drop the act of dropping something; "they expected the drop would be successful" | ||
| depository library, library a depository built to contain books and other materials for reading and study | ||
| lost-and-found repository in a public building where lost articles can be kept until their owners reclaim them | ||
| museum a depository for collecting and displaying objects having scientific or historical or artistic value | ||
| repertory a storehouse where a stock of things is kept | ||
| sperm bank a depository for storing sperm | ||
| storage space the area in any structure that provides space for storage | ||
| storehouse, depot, entrepot, store, storage a depository for goods; "storehouses were built close to the docks" | ||
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Wiktionary
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- repository (n.)
A place where things are or may be reposited, or laid up, for safety or preservation; a depository.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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repository
A place where something is deposited, as for storage, safekeeping, or preservation. -
repository
A person to whom a secret is entrusted. -
repository
A burial vault (usually for some famous person).
Military DictionaryMilitary Dictionary and Gazetteer 💥
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repository
A place, or repertory, in which anything is preserved. Thus, the British repository at Woolwich contains models of every sort of warlike stores, weapons, and fortifications; whether invented by officers of the army or civilians, as well of other nations as of Britain, receipts being given to preserve the title to the inventor.
Vulgar Tongue DictionaryDictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 👅
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repository
A lock-up or spunging-house, a gaol. Also livery stables where horses and carriages are sold by auction.
Part of speech
🔤- repository, noun, singular of repositories.
