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repositary

repositary is the archaic form of repository.

Meaning of repository

Noun

repository (plural repositories)

  1. 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 2
    Synonyms:
    See storehouse
    1. A 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 Register
    2. A burial vault.
    3. (figuratively) A person to whom a secret is entrusted.
    4. (dated) A place where things are stored for sale; a shop.

Forms of repositary

pluralrepositaries

Questions about repositary

What is repositary the archaic form of?
Repositary is the archaic form of repository.

Words near repositary in the dictionary

  1. reposeth
  2. reposing
  3. reposingly
  4. reposit
  5. repositaries
  6. repositary
  7. reposited
  8. repositing
  9. reposition
  10. repositionability
  11. repositionable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: repositary (page history and authors); repository (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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