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noun, plural -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.
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Repository
has a plethora of syllables.
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| opposition to the withdrawal of state support or recognition from an established church, esp. the Anglican Church in 19th-century England. |
| (used as a nonsense word by children to express approval or to represent the longest word in English.) |
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repository
late 15c., "vessel, etc., for storage," from L.L. repositorium "store," in classical L., "a stand on which food is placed," from reposit-, pp. stem of reponere "put away, store." Figurative use is recorded from 1640s.
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