Repository
[rɪ'pɒzɪt(ə)rɪ] or [rɪ'pɑzə'tɔri]
Definition
(noun.) a burial vault (usually for some famous person).
(noun.) a person to whom a secret is entrusted.
Editor: Maynard--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A place where things are or may be reposited, or laid up, for safety or preservation; a depository.
Editor: Noreen
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Depository, repertory, depot, magazine, conservatory, store-house, museum, treasury, THESAURUS.
Typist: Sonia
Examples
- I went; sought the repository he had mentioned, found the articles named, and returned with them. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I found a tremendous blank, in the place of that smiling repository of my confidence. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- That repository can certainly have no greater treasure of its kind. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Mr. Tulkinghorn is always the same speechless repository of noble confidences, so oddly out of place and yet so perfectly at home. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Fanny opening her reticule, as they surveyed these things, produced from that repository a shilling and handed it to Uncle. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Emanuel's feet, or confidingly put it into his hands, that he spurned the trust or repulsed the repository. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- In the lock hang the keys of all her repositories, of her very jewel-casket. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Editor: Olaf