Hypertext Webster Gateway: "repository"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Repository \Re*pos"i*to*ry\ (r?*p?z"?*t$*r?), n. [L.
repositorium, repostorium: cf. OF. repositoire.]
A place where things are or may be reposited, or laid up, for
safety or preservation; a depository. --Locke.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
repository
n 1: a facility where things can be deposited for safekeeping
[syn: {depository}, {deposit}]
2: a person to whom a secret is entrusted [syn: {secretary}]
3: a burial vault (usually for some famous person) [syn: {monument}]
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