Meanings
repository1
plural repositories
- A location for storage, often for safety or preservation.
Harvard has declined to become the repository of George Segal's controversial sculpture, "Gay Liberation."
1982 February 13, “Statuary Limitations”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 29, page 2Synonyms: See storehouse
- computingA storage location for files, such as downloadable software packages, or files in a source control system.
OpenSNP, a fourteen-year-old open source repository for genetic records, will shut down and delete all its data at the end of April.
2025 April 1, Thomas Claburn, “Genetic data repo OpenSNP to self-destruct before authoritarians weaponize it”, in The Register1 more example
Over the years, openSNP became one of the largest repositories of its kind, used in research, education, and even community-led investigations like debunking flawed CFS genetic studies.
2025 April 2, Bill Toulas, “Genetic data site openSNP to close and delete data over privacy concerns”, in BleepingComputerSynonyms: See storehouse, archive
- A burial vault.
Synonyms: See storehouse
repository2
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA location for storage, often for safety or preservation.
nounA storage location for files, such as downloadable software packages, or files in a source control system.
nounA burial vault.
nounA person to whom a secret is entrusted.
nounA place where things are stored for sale; a shop.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping
nouna burial vault (usually for some famous person)
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
repository · noun
- Latinrepositōrium
- Middle Englishreposytorye
- Englishrepository
From Middle English reposytorye, from Latin repositōrium. By surface analysis, reposit + -ory.
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Full word history & related roots →repository · adjective
- Classical Latinreposit-
- Englishrepository
From reposit or its etymon Classical Latin reposit-, past participial stem of repōnō, + -ory. Compare Medieval Latin repositōrius (“used for storage”).
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Full word history & related roots →Translations
Ancient Greek ἀποθήκη
- ἀποθήκη (apothḗkē)a location for storage, often for safety or preservation
Arabic مَخْزَن
- مَخْزَن (maḵzan)a location for storage, often for safety or preservation
Bulgarian хранилище, гробница
- хранилище (hranilište)storage location for computer files
- гробница (grobnica)a burial vault
- довереник (doverenik)a person to whom a secret is entrusted
- довереница (doverenica)a person to whom a secret is entrusted
- довереничка (doverenička)a person to whom a secret is entrusted
- склад (sklad)a location for storage, often for safety or preservation
- хранилище (hranilište)a location for storage, often for safety or preservation
Catalan repositori, dipositari
- repositoristorage location for computer files
- dipositaria person to whom a secret is entrusted
- dipòsita location for storage, often for safety or preservation
Chinese Mandarin 倉 /仓, 倉庫 /仓库
- 倉 /仓 (cāng)storage location for computer files
- 倉庫 /仓库 (cāngkù)storage location for computer files
- 倉庫 /仓库 (cāngkù)a location for storage, often for safety or preservation
Czech úložiště, úložiště
- úložištěstorage location for computer files
- úložištěa location for storage, often for safety or preservation
Dutch grafkelder, vertrouweling
- grafkeldera burial vault
- vertrouwelinga person to whom a secret is entrusted
- opslagplaatsa location for storage, often for safety or preservation
- depota location for storage, often for safety or preservation
- opslagruimtea location for storage, often for safety or preservation
Esperanto deponejo
- deponejoa location for storage, often for safety or preservation
Finnish varasto, hautaholvi
- varastostorage location for computer files
- hautaholvia burial vault
- luottohenkilöa person to whom a secret is entrusted
- säilytyspaikkaa location for storage, often for safety or preservation
- säilöa location for storage, often for safety or preservation
French dépôt, référentiel
- dépôtstorage location for computer files
- référentielstorage location for computer files
- répertoirestorage location for computer files
- tombeaua burial vault
- mausoléea burial vault
- dépositairea person to whom a secret is entrusted
- chambre-fortea location for storage, often for safety or preservation
- coffre-forta location for storage, often for safety or preservation
- repositoirea location for storage, often for safety or preservation
German Ablage, Depot
- Ablagea location for storage, often for safety or preservation
- Depota location for storage, often for safety or preservation
- Archiva location for storage, often for safety or preservation
Greek αποθετήριο, μυστικοσύμβουλος
- αποθετήριο (apothetírio)storage location for computer files
- μυστικοσύμβουλος (mystikosýmvoulos)a person to whom a secret is entrusted
- αποθήκη (apothíki)a location for storage, often for safety or preservation
- αποθετήριο (apothetírio)a location for storage, often for safety or preservation
Hungarian tár, adattár
- tára location for storage, often for safety or preservation
- adattára location for storage, often for safety or preservation
- gyűjteménya location for storage, often for safety or preservation
- archívuma location for storage, often for safety or preservation
- lerakata location for storage, often for safety or preservation
- raktára location for storage, often for safety or preservation
- tárháza location for storage, often for safety or preservation
- tárolóa location for storage, often for safety or preservation
- megőrzőa location for storage, often for safety or preservation
Italian sepolcro, tomba
- sepolcroa burial vault
- tombaa burial vault
- mausoleoa burial vault
- criptaa burial vault
- depositarioa person to whom a secret is entrusted
- confidentea person to whom a secret is entrusted
- ripostiglioa location for storage, often for safety or preservation
- ricettacoloa location for storage, often for safety or preservation
Japanese 倉庫
- 倉庫 (sōko)a location for storage, often for safety or preservation
Latin receptāculum, apothēca
- receptāculuma location for storage, often for safety or preservation
- apothēcaa location for storage, often for safety or preservation
Māori pūkenga
- pūkengaa person to whom a secret is entrusted
Persian مخزن
- مخزن (maxzan)a location for storage, often for safety or preservation
Polish repozytorium, grobowiec
- repozytoriumstorage location for computer files
- grobowieca burial vault
- powiernika person to whom a secret is entrusted
- powierniczkaa person to whom a secret is entrusted
- składnicaa location for storage, often for safety or preservation
- magazyna location for storage, often for safety or preservation
- składa location for storage, often for safety or preservation
- przechowalniaa location for storage, often for safety or preservation
- repozytoriuma location for storage, often for safety or preservation
Portuguese repositório
- repositórioa location for storage, often for safety or preservation
Russian репозито́рий, склеп
- репозито́рий (repozitórij)storage location for computer files
- склеп (sklep)a burial vault
- дове́ренное лицо́ (dovérennoje licó)a person to whom a secret is entrusted
- храни́лище (xranílišče)a location for storage, often for safety or preservation
- склад (sklad)a location for storage, often for safety or preservation
- вмести́лище (vmestílišče)a location for storage, often for safety or preservation
Spanish repositorio, depositario
- repositoriostorage location for computer files
- depositarioa person to whom a secret is entrusted
- repositorioa location for storage, often for safety or preservation
Swedish repositorium, lager
- repositoriumstorage location for computer files
- lagera location for storage, often for safety or preservation
Ukrainian сховище
- сховище (sxovyšče)a location for storage, often for safety or preservation
Cite this entry
repository. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/repository
“repository.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/repository. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “repository,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/repository.
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