depot
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An old railroad depot (sense 2) at Rolling Fork, Mississippi, USA
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From French dépôt, from Old French depost, from Medieval Latin dēpositum, from Latin, participle of dēpōnō, dēpōnere. Doublet of deposit.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdɛpəʊ/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈdiːpoʊ/, (military) /ˈdɛpoʊ/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈdepɐʉ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛpəʊ
Noun
depot (plural depots)
- A storage facility, in particular, a warehouse.
- 2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 200:
- Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.
- A storage space for public transport and other vehicles where they can be maintained and from which they are dispatched for service.
- Coordinate term: truckyard
- (US) A bus station or railway station.
- (military) A place where recruits are assembled before being sent to active units.
- (military) A place for the storage, servicing or upgrade of military hardware.
- (military) The portion of a regiment that remains at home when the rest go on foreign service.
- (card games) The tableau; the area where cards can be arranged in solitaire or patience games.
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Translations
warehouse or similar storage facility
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bus or railway station
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military: place where recruits are assembled
card games — see tableau
Anagrams
Danish
Etymology
Noun
depot n (singular definite depotet, plural indefinite depoter)
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Declension
Declension of depot
| neuter gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | depot | depotet | depoter | depoterne |
| genitive | depots | depotets | depoters | depoternes |
Further reading
- “depot” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
Alternative forms
- (obsolete) depôt
Etymology
Either from Middle Dutch depoost, from Middle French deposte, from Latin dēpositus, with adaptation of the spelling and pronunciation to Modern French dépôt, or borrowed anew from French dépôt, from the same Middle French word.
Pronunciation
Noun
depot n or m (plural depots, diminutive depotje n)
Descendants
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch depot, either from French dépôt or Middle French deposte, from Latin dēpositus.
Pronunciation
Noun
depot (plural depot-depot, first-person possessive depotku, second-person possessive depotmu, third-person possessive depotnya)
- depot: a storage facility, in particular, a warehouse.
- small house for trading.
- alternative spelling of depo (“motive power depot, traction maintenance depot, railway depot”).
Derived terms
Further reading
- “depot” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.