Meaning

5 senses
  1. A location for storage, often for safety or preservation.

  2. A location for storage, often for safety or preservation.

    A storage location for files, such as downloadable software packages, or files in a source control system.

    репозито́рийrepozitórij

  3. A burial vault.

    склепsklep

    a burial vault (usually for some famous person)

  4. (figuratively)A person to whom a secret is entrusted.

    дове́ренное лицо́dovérennoje licó

    a person to whom a secret is entrusted

  5. (dated)A place where things are stored for sale; a shop.

    a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping

Examples

6 sentences
  1. An encyclopedia is a repository of knowledge and wisdom.

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  2. In computer science, a software repository is a website where software can be uploaded.

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  3. Who maintains this repository?

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  4. A website for learning different languages, tatoeba.org has a rich repository of sentence examples.

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  5. Many Linux distributions provide a trusted repository for installing software programs.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
a location for storage, often for safety or preservation:
Русский
By meaning 4
a location for storage, often for safety or preservation:
storage location for computer files:
a burial vault:
a person to whom a secret is entrusted:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a location for storage, often for safety or preservation:

Origin

From Middle English reposytorye, from Latin repositōrium. By surface analysis, reposit + -

From Middle English reposytorye, from Latin repositōrium. By surface analysis, reposit + -ory.

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Forms

plural: repositories
Singularrepository
Pluralrepositories

regular

Synonyms

7 synonyms
archiveSee storehouse
Close in meaning

Word family

10 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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