archive
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.
Noun
- 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.
- “I don’t know how one could be interested in libraries and not archives,” Lannon told me. They tell you “the stories behind things,” he said, “the unpublished, the hard to find, the true story. - 2017 September 20,...
- The material so kept, considered as a whole (compare archives).
- His archive of Old High German texts is the most extensive in Britain.
- Natural deposits of material, regarded as a record of environmental changes over time.
- soil archive
- peat archive
Origin
Etymology tree Ancient Greek ἄρχω (árkhō) Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā) Ancient Greek -η (-ē) Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ρχή (ărkhḗ) Ancient Greek *ἀρχεῖος (*arkheîos) Ancient Greek ἀρχεῖον (arkheîon)bor. Latin archīvumbor. French archives French archiveder. English archive First appears c. 1603 in a translation by Philemon Holland. From French archive(s), from Latin archīvum, from Ancient Greek ἀρχεῖον (arkheîon, “town hall”).
Forms
Derived
archival archivation archive box archiving archivism archivist archivization bioarchive cryoarchive de-archive e-archive national archive subarchive unarchive
Verb
- To place (something) into an archive.
- I was planning on archiving the documents from 2001.
Synonyms: archivize
Forms
Derived
archivability archivable archival rearchive self-archive self-archiving unarchive