Definitions for: Archive

[n] a depository containing historical records and documents
[v] put into an archive

Webster (1913) Definition: Ar"chive, n.; pl. Archives. [F. archives, pl., L.
archivum, archium, fr. Gr. ? government house, ? ? archives,
fr. ? the first place, government. See Archi-, pref.]
1. pl. 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. 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.

Synonyms: archives, file away

See Also: chancery, collect, deposit, depository, pull in, repository

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