re·pos·i·to·ry
ri-ˈpä-zə-ˌtȯr-ē 
plural repositories
1
: a place, room, or container where something is deposited or stored : depository
2
: a side altar in a Roman Catholic church where the consecrated Host is reserved from Maundy Thursday until Good Friday
3
: one that contains or stores something nonmaterial
considered the book a repository of knowledge
4
: a place or region richly supplied with a natural resource
5
: a person to whom something is confided or entrusted
of a drug
: designed to act over a prolonged period
repository penicillin
Examples of repository in a Sentence
Noun
a repository for nuclear waste
He is the repository of many secrets.
She is the repository of her family's history.
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Many communities choose a historic building to become the repository of the city’s historical treasures.
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In the mid 2000s, Gates was working as an arts administrator at the University of Chicago, while also buying derelict buildings on the city’s South Side and turning them into artists’ studios or repositories for his collections of books, records, and photographic slides.
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Noun
Our current ideas about archives as these infinite repositories feel like a bit of a fiction.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
The internet has become a repository of LGBTQ+-themed Miss Honey memes, who has been noted as a gay icon on Reddit threads, X (formerly Twitter) posts and Tumblr reblogs.
—Mathew Rodriguez, Them., 1 Oct. 2025
Many communities choose a historic building to become the repository of the city’s historical treasures.
—Del Mar Historical Society, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025
In the mid 2000s, Gates was working as an arts administrator at the University of Chicago, while also buying derelict buildings on the city’s South Side and turning them into artists’ studios or repositories for his collections of books, records, and photographic slides.
—Elizabeth Cantrell, Travel + Leisure, 26 Sep. 2025
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“Repository.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/repository. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.
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repository
adjective
re·pos·i·to·ry
ri-ˈpäz-ə-ˌtōr-ē
of a drug
: designed to act over a prolonged period
repository penicillin
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