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English noun: repository | |||
| 1. | repository (artifact) a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping | ||
| Synonyms | deposit, depositary, depository | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | facility, installation | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | archive, bank, bank building, depository library, depot, drop, entrepot, library, lost-and-found, museum, repertory, sperm bank, storage, store, storehouse, treasury | ||
| Part holonym | storage space | ||
| 2. | repository (person) a person to whom a secret is entrusted | ||
| Synonyms | secretary | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | confidant, intimate | ||
| 3. | repository (artifact) a burial vault (usually for some famous person) | ||
| Synonyms | monument | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | burial chamber, sepulcher, sepulchre, sepulture | ||
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