ARCHIVE

archive

(noun) a depository containing historical records and documents

archive, file away

(verb) put into an archive

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

archive (plural archives)

A place for storing earlier, and often historical, material. An archive usually contains documents (letters, records, newspapers, etc.) or other types of media kept for historical interest.

The material so kept, considered as a whole (compare archives).

(ecology) Natural deposits of material, regarded as a record of environmental changes over time.

Verb

archive (third-person singular simple present archives, present participle archiving, simple past and past participle archived)

To put into an archive.

Anagrams

• Varchie

Source: Wiktionary


Ar"chive, n.; pl. Archives. Etym: [F. archives, pl., L. archivum, archium, fr. Gr. Archi-, pref.]

1. pl.

Definition: The place in which public records or historic documents are kept. Our words . . . . become records in God's court, and are laid up in his archives as witnesses. Gov. of Tongue.

2. pl.

Definition: Public records or documents preserved as evidence of facts; as, the archives of a country or family. [Rarely used in sing.] Some rotten archive, rummaged out of some seldom explored press. Lamb.

Syn.

– Registers; records; chronicles.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

25 December 2024

UNAMBIGUOUS

(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa


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