Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A concealed repository; a place for hiding or preserving valuables, as goods, money, relics, etc.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A place for hiding or preserving articles of value.

Etymologies

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From Medieval Latin abditorium, from abdō ("to hide").

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