repositories

[ri-poz-i-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee]

re·pos·i·tor·y

[ri-poz-i-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee]
noun, plural re·pos·i·tor·ies.
1.
a receptacle or place where things are deposited, stored, or offered for sale: a repository for discarded clothing.
2.
an abundant source or supply; storehouse: a repository of information.
3.
a burial place; sepulcher.
4.
a person to whom something is entrusted or confided.
5.
Chiefly British. warehouse.

Origin:
1475–85; < Latin repositōrium that in which anything is placed; see reposit, -tory2


1. depot, storehouse, depository.

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Repositories is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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