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repository
noun repositories
    1. A place or container where things may be stored.
      Thesaurus: depository, warehouse, storehouse, receptacle, store, archive, treasury, depot, emporium, vault, magazine.
    2a. A place where things are stored for exhibition;
    2b. A museum.
    3. A warehouse.
    4. Someone or something thought of as a store of information, knowledge, etc.
    5. A trusted person to whom one can confide secrets.
    6. A tomb; a place of burial.
Etymology: 15c: from Latin repositorium, from reponere, repositum to replace, to store up.



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