depository

/dəˌpɑzəˈtɔri/

Other forms: depositories

A depository is a place where things are kept or stored. You might call your city's Natural History Museum a depository of local dinosaur fossils.

A library could also be called a book depository, since books are stored there, and the official name of Fort Knox, which once stored much of the gold in the US, is the United States Bullion Depository. The word depository literally means "place where things are deposited," from the Latin root deponere, "lay aside or deposit," combining de-, "away," and ponere, "to put."

Definitions of depository

1. noun

   a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping
   synonyms: deposit, depositary, repository

   types:

   archive

   a depository containing historical records and documents

   bank, bank building

   a building in which the business of banking transacted

   drop

   a central depository where things can be left or picked up

   depository library, library

   a depository built to contain books and other materials for reading and study

   lost-and-found

   repository in a public building where lost articles can be kept until their owners reclaim them

   museum

   a depository for collecting and displaying objects having scientific or historical or artistic value

   repertory

   a storehouse where a stock of things is kept

   sperm bank

   a depository for storing sperm

   depot, entrepot, storage, store, storehouse

   a depository for goods

   treasury

   a depository (a room or building) where wealth and precious objects can be kept safely

   athenaeum, atheneum

   a place where reading materials are available

   chancery

   an office of archives for public or ecclesiastic records; a court of public records

   dump

   a place where supplies can be stored

   garner, granary

   a storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed

   circulating library, lending library

   library that provides books for use outside the building

   magazine, powder magazine, powder store

   a storehouse (as a compartment on a warship) where weapons and ammunition are stored

   maildrop

   a drop where mail can be deposited

   railhead

   a railroad depot in a theater of operations where military supplies are unloaded for distribution

   science museum

   a museum that collects and displays objects having scientific interest

   treasure house

   a storehouse for treasures

   storage warehouse, warehouse

   a storehouse for goods and merchandise

   type of:

   facility, installation

   a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry