1. repository(n = noun.artifact) deposit, depositary, depository - a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping;
is a kind of facility, installation
has parts: storage space
has particulars: archive, bank, bank building, drop, depository library, library, lost-and-found, museum, repertory, sperm bank, depot, entrepot, storage, store, storehouse, treasury
2. repository(n = noun.person) secretary - a person to whom a secret is entrusted;
is a kind of confidant, intimate
3. repository(n = noun.artifact) monument - a burial vault (usually for some famous person);
is a kind of burial chamber, sepulcher, sepulchre, sepulture
A place where things are or may be reposited, or laid up, for safety or preservation; a depository. Locke. [1913 Webster]
repository, n. (pl. -ies)
1 a place where things are stored or may be found, esp. a warehouse or museum.
2 a receptacle.
3 (often foll. by of) a a book, person, etc. regarded as a store of information etc. b the recipient of confidences or secrets.
Etymology:
obs. F repositoire or L repositorium (as REPOSE(2))
N store, stock, fund, mine, vein, lode, quarry, spring, fount, fountain, well, wellspring, milch cow, stock in trade, supply, heap, treasure, reserve, corps de reserve, reserved fund, nest egg, savings, bonne bouche, crop, harvest, mow, vintage, store, accumulation, hoard, rick, stack, lumber, relay, storehouse, storeroom, storecloset, depository, depot, cache, repository, reservatory, repertory, repertorium, promptuary, warehouse, entrepot, magazine, buttery, larder, spence, garner, granary, cannery, safe-deposit vault, stillroom, thesaurus, bank, armory, arsenal, dock, gallery, museum, conservatory, menagery, menagerie, reservoir, cistern, aljibar, tank, pond, mill pond, gasometer, budget, quiver, bandolier, portfolio, coffer, conservation, storing, storage, keep, file (papers), lay in, preserve, Adj, stored, in store, in reserve, in ordinary, spare, supernumerary, adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit.