registry

UK/ˈɹɛd͡ʒɪstɹi/US/ˈɹɛd͡ʒɪstɹi/

nounB2+Common in everyday speech and writing · #7,537 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: registries

A registry is the official office where records are kept and consulted. The land registry, a registry office, search the registry.

In Britain a registry office is where births, marriages and deaths are recorded, and where a civil marriage takes place. In computing the registry is the store of settings a system keeps.

Definitions of registry

1nounregistryThe official office where records of births, marriages and property dealings are kept and consulted.B2+
“They were married at the registry office with two friends as witnesses.”

registry is an office.

Where it comes from

Medieval Latin registerium comes from regesta, things recorded, from regerere, to carry back or enter.

Medieval Latin
regesterium
Middle English
regestery — ?a record book; ?a bookmark
English, today
registry

A variant of registery, from Middle English regestery (“?a record book; ?a bookmark”), partly from Medieval Latin regesterium, registerium and probably also partly formed with -ery. Equivalent to register + -y.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

registry in the wild

The full registry is available on a paid subscription basis.
CAS Registry Number
A collection of almost 500 thousand CAS registry numbers is made available under a CC BY-NC license at ACS Commons Chemistry.
CAS Registry Number
The regional Internet registry system evolved, eventually dividing the responsibility for management to a registry for each of five regions of the world.
Regional Internet registry
The domain name registry for.xxx was initially operated by ICM Registry.
.xxx
The registry also allows access to counters for profiling system performance.
Windows Registry

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