depot

Meaning of depot

noun
  1. a place for the storage of large quantities of equipment, food, or goods.
    an arms depot
  2. a place where buses, trains, or other vehicles are housed and maintained and from which they are dispatched for service.
  3. a place where recruits are trained or other troops are assembled.
    only conscripts who lived near a training depot had permission to commute to it

late 18th century (in the sense ‘act of depositing’): from French dépôt, from Latin depositum ‘something deposited’ (see deposit).

Information about depot

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of depot is: depots.
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Hyphenation of depot

de-pot

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 5 chars.
  • depot is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

depot synonyms

Meaning terminal:

terminal, terminus

Meaning storehouse:

storehouse, entrepot, storage, store

Meaning a large building where raw materials or manufactured goods may be stored prior to their distribution for sale:

warehouse

Meaning a person or thing regarded as a store of information or in which a particular quality may be found:

repository

Meaning a place where things are stored:

depository

Meaning a collection of items of the same type stored in a hidden or inaccessible place:

cache

Meaning a collection of weapons and military equipment:

arsenal

Meaning a periodical publication containing articles and illustrations, often on a particular subject or aimed at a particular readership:

magazine

Meaning a place where weapons are kept:

armoury

Meaning a granary:

garner

Anagrams of depot

opted, poted, toped

Words that rhyme with depot

saucepot, subdepot, coffeepot, bridgepot, cachepot, liepot, smokepot, alepot, winepot, entrepot, firepot, repot, Chassepot, chassepot, whitepot, gluepot, lovepot

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