noun
Meaning 1
A storage facility, in particular, a warehouse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Near-synonyms: depository, repository
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: depository, repository
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
depot
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈdɛpəʊ/
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US: /ˈdiːpoʊ/
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Australian: /ˈdepɐʉ/
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rhymes with -ɛpəʊ
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CMU ARPABET: D IY1 P OW0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A storage space for public transport and other vehicles where they can be maintained and from which they are dispatched for service.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A bus station or railway station.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A place where recruits are assembled before being sent to active units.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: government, military, politics, war
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
A place for the storage, servicing, or upgrade of military hardware.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: government, military, politics, war
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
The portion of a regiment that remains at home when the rest go on foreign service.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: government, military, politics, war
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
A bolus of medication that remains sequestered in some particular site within the body, often intradermally, from which it is gradually absorbed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: medicine, sciences
Examples
- depot injection
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 8
The tableau: the area where cards can be arranged in solitaire or patience games.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: card-games, games
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 9
a depository for goods
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- storehouses were built close to the docks
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: storehouse, entrepot, storage, store
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: depository, deposit, depositary, repository
Narrower terms: dump, granary, garner, magazine, powder store, powder magazine, railhead, treasure house, warehouse, storage warehouse
noun
Meaning 10
station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: terminal, terminus
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: station
Narrower terms: air terminal, airport terminal, bus terminal, bus depot, bus station, coach station, cathode, railway station, railroad station, railroad terminal, train station, train depot, subway station
History
Etymology
From French dépôt, from Old French depost, from Medieval Latin dēpositum, from Latin, participle of dēpōnō, dēpōnere. Doublet of deposit.
Across languages
Translations
74 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: مَخْزَن (maḵzan) — warehouse or similar storage facility
- Arabic: مُسْتَوْدَع (mustawdaʕ) — warehouse or similar storage facility
- Bulgarian: склад (sklad) — warehouse or similar storage facility
- Catalan: dipòsit — warehouse or similar storage facility
- Chinese Mandarin: 倉庫 /仓库 (cāngkù) — warehouse or similar storage facility
- Czech: sklad — warehouse or similar storage facility
- Czech: skladiště — warehouse or similar storage facility
- Dutch: opslagplaats — warehouse or similar storage facility
- Faroese: goymsla — warehouse or similar storage facility
- Finnish: varasto — warehouse or similar storage facility
- Finnish: varikko — warehouse or similar storage facility
- French: dépôt — warehouse or similar storage facility
- German: Depot — warehouse or similar storage facility
- German: Lager — warehouse or similar storage facility
- German: Speicherraum — warehouse or similar storage facility
- Indonesian: depot — warehouse or similar storage facility
- Italian: deposito — warehouse or similar storage facility
- Italian: magazzino — warehouse or similar storage facility
- Italian: rimessa — warehouse or similar storage facility
- Japanese: 倉庫 (sōko) — warehouse or similar storage facility
- Korean: 창고 (changgo) — warehouse or similar storage facility
- Macedonian: склад (sklad) — warehouse or similar storage facility
- Macedonian: скла́диште (skládište) — warehouse or similar storage facility
- Macedonian: депо́ (depó) — warehouse or similar storage facility
- Malay: depoh — warehouse or similar storage facility
- Manx: ard-hie — warehouse or similar storage facility
- Māori: kōpapa — warehouse or similar storage facility
- Māori: taupuni — warehouse or similar storage facility
- Polish: hurtownia — warehouse or similar storage facility
- Polish: magazyn — warehouse or similar storage facility
- Polish: skład — warehouse or similar storage facility
- Polish: składnica — warehouse or similar storage facility
- Portuguese: depósito — warehouse or similar storage facility
- Russian: ба́за (báza) — warehouse or similar storage facility
- Russian: пакга́уз (pakgáuz) — warehouse or similar storage facility
- Russian: склад (sklad) — warehouse or similar storage facility
- Russian: храни́лище (xranílišče) — warehouse or similar storage facility
- Serbo-Croatian: депо — warehouse or similar storage facility
- Serbo-Croatian: depo — warehouse or similar storage facility
- Slovak: depo — warehouse or similar storage facility
- Spanish: depósito — warehouse or similar storage facility
- Turkish: depo — warehouse or similar storage facility
- Vietnamese: kho chứa — warehouse or similar storage facility
- Vietnamese: kho hàng — warehouse or similar storage facility
- Czech: depo — maintenance and storage facility for vehicles
- Czech: vozovna — maintenance and storage facility for vehicles
- Bulgarian: га́ра (gára) — bus or railway station
- Chinese Mandarin: 車站 /车站 (chēzhàn) — bus or railway station
- Czech: nádraží — bus or railway station
- Finnish: asema — bus or railway station
- French: dépôt — bus or railway station
- Italian: deposito — bus or railway station
- Italian: deposito ferroviario — bus or railway station
- Japanese: 駅 (eki) — bus or railway station
- Māori: teihana — bus or railway station
- Māori: taupuni — bus or railway station
- Plautdietsch: Stazion — bus or railway station
- Polish: stacja — bus or railway station
- Portuguese: estação — bus or railway station
- Russian: автовокза́л (avtovokzál) — bus or railway station
- Russian: депо́ (dɛpó) — bus or railway station
- Russian: ста́нция (stáncija) — bus or railway station
- Russian: автоста́нция (avtostáncija) — bus or railway station
- Spanish: estación — bus or railway station
- Vietnamese: bến xe — bus or railway station
- Vietnamese: bến tàu — bus or railway station
- Finnish: kutsuntapaikka — military: place where recruits are assembled
- Māori: taupuni — military: place where recruits are assembled
- Russian: вое́нный ла́герь (vojénnyj lágerʹ) — military: place where recruits are assembled
- Russian: уче́бная часть (učébnaja častʹ) — military: place where recruits are assembled
- Russian: уче́бно-запасна́я во́инская часть (učébno-zapasnája vóinskaja častʹ) — military: place where recruits are assembled
- Vietnamese: kho — military: place where recruits are assembled
- Finnish: varikko — military: storage
- Vietnamese: kho — military: storage
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