A depository for collecting and displaying objects having scientific or historical or artistic value.
Roget 636:
stock,
fund,
mine,
vein,
lode,
quarry;
spring;
fount,
fountain;
well,
wellspring;
milch cow.
stock in trade,
supply;
heap
etc.
(collection)
72;
treasure;
reserve,
corps de reserve,
reserved fund,
nest egg,
savings,
bonne bouche [Fr.].
crop,
harvest,
mow,
vintage.
store,
accumulation,
hoard,
rick,
stack;
lumber;
relay
etc.
(provision)
637.
storehouse,
storeroom,
storecloset†;
depository,
depot,
cache,
repository,
reservatory†,
repertory;
repertorium†;
promptuary†,
warehouse,
entrepot [Fr.],
magazine;
buttery,
larder,
spence†;
garner,
granary;
cannery,
safe-deposit vault,
stillroom†;
thesaurus;
bank
etc.
(treasury)
802;
armory;
arsenal;
dock;
gallery,
museum,
conservatory;
menagery†,
menagerie.
reservoir,
cistern,
aljibar†,
tank,
pond,
mill pond;
gasometer†.
budget,
quiver,
bandolier,
portfolio;
coffer
etc.
(receptacle)
191.
conservation;
storing
etc.
v.;
storage.
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Roget 72:
assemblage;
collection,
collocation,
colligation†;
compilation,
levy,
gathering,
ingathering,
muster,
attroupement†;
team;
concourse,
conflux†,
congregation,
contesseration†,
convergence
etc.
290;
meeting,
levee,
reunion,
drawing room,
at home;
conversazione [It]
etc.
(social gathering)
892;
assembly,
congress;
convention,
conventicle;
gemote†;
conclave
etc.
(council)
696;
posse,
posse comitatus [Lat.];
Noah's ark.
miscellany,
collectanea†;
museum,
menagerie
etc.
(store)
636;
museology†.
crowd,
throng,
group;
flood,
rush,
deluge;
rabble,
mob,
press,
crush,
cohue†,
horde,
body,
tribe;
crew,
gang,
knot,
squad,
band,
party;
swarm,
shoal,
school,
covey,
flock,
herd,
drove;
atajo†;
bunch,
drive,
force,
mulada [U.S.];
remuda†;
roundup [U.S.];
array,
bevy,
galaxy;
corps,
company,
troop,
troupe,
task force;
army,
regiment
etc.
(combatants)
726;
host
etc.
(multitude)
102;
populousness.
clan,
brotherhood,
fraternity,
sorority,
association
etc.
(party)
712.
volley,
shower,
storm,
cloud.
group,
cluster,
Pleiades,
clump,
pencil;
set,
batch,
lot,
pack;
budget,
assortment,
bunch;
parcel;
packet,
package;
bundle,
fascine†,
fasces†,
bale;
seron†,
seroon†;
fagot,
wisp,
truss,
tuft;
shock,
rick,
fardel†,
stack,
sheaf,
haycock†;
fascicle,
fascicule†,
fasciculus [Lat.],
gavel,
hattock†,
stook†.
accumulation
etc.
(store)
636;
congeries,
heap,
lump,
pile,
rouleau†,
tissue,
mass,
pyramid;
bing†;
drift;
snowball,
snowdrift;
acervation†,
cumulation;
glomeration†,
agglomeration;
conglobation†;
conglomeration,
conglomerate;
coacervate [Chem],
coacervation [Chem],
coagmentation†,
aggregation,
concentration,
congestion,
omnium gaterum [Lat.],
spicilegium†,
black hole of Calcutta;
quantity
etc.
(greatness)
31.
collector,
gatherer;
whip,
whipper in.
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Dutch: museum
Polish: muzeum