Definitions for depot

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depot de·pot

Spelling: [dee-poh; Military or British dep-oh]

IPA: /ˈdi poʊ; Military or British ˈdɛp oʊ/

Depot is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 67 anagrams from letters in depot (deopt).

Definitions for depot

noun

1. a railroad station.
2. a bus station.
3. Military. a place in which supplies and materials are stored for distribution. (formerly) a place where recruits are assembled for classification, initial training, and assignment to active units.
4. a storehouse or warehouse, as a building where freight is deposited.
5. Physiology. a place where body products not actively involved in metabolic processes are accumulated, deposited, or stored.

Origin of depot

1785-95; French dépot Latin dēpositum, noun use of neuter of dēpositus; see deposit

Examples for depot

The depot master, who was on hand to help with the trunk, grinned broadly.

This was the one-room studio in Mill Valley, California near The depot.

"Um," grunted the depot master, knocking the ashes from his cigar.

The sessions were well received, and before long they were executed on a larger scale with every recruit company in the depot.

And if—if anybody asks for me, I'll most likely be down to the depot, with Mr. Duncan.

He is to be taken to the depot, to go to Virginia in the first train.

This time Hathelin had not the honour of the Bastille; he was sent to some depot.

But you ought to get warm and dry right off, I s'pose, and your duds are all up to the depot.

Especially if all the telegraph operators was like the one up at the depot.

The "depot hill" is not as high as Whittaker's Hill, but the view is almost as extensive.