Word Meanings - REPOSITORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A place where things are or may be reposited, or laid up, for safety or preservation; a depository. Locke.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REPOSITORY)

• Receptacle
• Repository
• lodgment
• recipient
• magazine
• store
• case
• berth
• Storehouse
• Warehouse
• repository
• treasury
• depot

Related words: (words related to REPOSITORY)

• STORER
  One who lays up or forms a store.
• WAREHOUSE
  A storehouse for wares, or goods. Addison.
• BERTH
  Convenient sea room. A room in which a number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside. The place where a ship lies when she is at anchor, or at a wharf. 2. An allotted place; an appointment; situation or employment. "He has a good berth."
• MAGAZINE CAMERA
  A camera in which a number of plates can be exposed without reloading.
• LODGMENT
  The occupation and holding of a position, as by a besieging party; an instrument thrown up in a captured position; as, to effect a lodgment. (more info) 1. The act of lodging, or the state of being lodged. Any particle which is of size enough to
• BERTHA
  A kind of collar or cape worn by ladies.
• STORED
  Collected or accumulated as a reserve supply; as, stored electricity. It is charged with stored virtue. Bagehot.
• TREASURY STOCK
  Issued stock of an incorporated company held by the company itself.
• REPOSITORY
  A place where things are or may be reposited, or laid up, for safety or preservation; a depository. Locke.
• DEPOT
  1. A place of deposit storing of goods; a warehouse; a storehouse. The islands of Guernsey and Jersey are at present the great depots of this kingdom. Brit Critic . A military station where stores and provisions are kept, or where recruits are
• MAGAZINE
  almagacen; all fr. Ar. makhzan, almakhzan, a storehouse, granary, or 1. A receptacle in which anything is stored, especially military stores, as ammunition, arms, provisions, etc. "Armories and magazines." Milton. 2. The building or room in which
• RECEPTACLE
  1. That which serves, or is used, fro receiving and containing something, as a basket, a vase, a bag, a reservoir; a repository. O sacred receptacle of my joys! Shak. The apex of the flower stalk, from which the organs of the flower grow, or into
• BERTHAGE
  A place for mooring vessels in a dock or harbor.
• STOREY
  See STORY
• STOREHOUSE
  1. A building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions; a magazine; a repository; a warehouse. Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto Egyptians. Gen. xli.
• STORESHIP
  A vessel used to carry naval stores for a fleet, garrison, or the like.
• BERTHIERITE
  A double sulphide of antimony and iron, of a dark steel-gray color.
• RECIPIENT
  A receiver; the person or thing that receives; one to whom, or that to which, anything is given or communicated; specifically, the receiver of a still.
• STORE
  Articles, especially of food, accumulated for some specific object; supplies, as of provisions, arms, ammunition, and the like; as, the stores of an army, of a ship, of a family. His swine, his horse, his stoor, and his poultry. Chaucer. In store,
• MAGAZINER
  One who edits or writes for a magazine. Goldsmith.
• RESTORE
  To bring back to its former state; to bring back from a state of ruin, decay, disease, or the like; to repair; to renew; to recover. "To restore and to build Jerusalem." Dan. ix. 25. Our fortune restored after the severest afflictions. Prior. And
• SUBTREASURY
  A subordinate treasury, or place of deposit; as, the United States subtreasury at New York.
• CASTOREUM
  A peculiar bitter orange-brown substance, with strong, penetrating odor, found in two sacs between the anus and external genitals of the beaver; castor; -- used in medicine as an antispasmodic, and by perfumers.
• INSTORE
  To store up; to inclose; to contain. Wyclif.
• RESTORER
  One who, or that which, restores.
• WARNSTORE
  To furnish. "To warnstore your house." Chaucer.