archive
Chiefly in the form archivesChiefly in the form archives.: A repository or other place for storing material (such as documents and records) no longer in current use, and usually having historical value.
» Tom is looking in the archives.
Meaning
4 sensesChiefly in the form archives.
A repository or other place for storing material (such as documents and records) no longer in current use, and usually having historical value.
Archiv
архи́вarxív
архі́вarxív
a depository containing historical records and documents
The material so stored, considered as a whole.
His archive of Old High German texts is the most extensive in Britain.
The material so stored, considered as a whole.
(broadly)A natural deposit of material, regarded as a record of environmental changes over time.
peat archive soil archive
(figuratively)A collection, a repository.
Examples
42 sentencesTom is looking in the archives.
He forgot to archive the files.
I will not archive her photographs.
I created an archive of my emails.
The archive is on the fifth floor.
Translations
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Origin
The noun is borrowed from French archive, archif, from Late Latin archīvum, archīum (“archThe noun is borrowed from French archive, archif, from Late Latin archīvum, archīum (“archive; room containing an archive; public record office”), from Ancient Greek ἀρχεῖον (arkheîon, “office of a magistrate; public building or office; town hall; (in the plural) archives; public records”), a noun use of the neuter form of *ἀρχεῖος (*arkheîos, “relating to an office”), from ᾰ̓ρχή (ărkhḗ, “beginning, origin; authority, sovereignty”) (from ἄρχω (árkhō, “to begin; to govern, rule”); further etymology uncertain, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- (“to fit; to fix; to put together”), or *h₂ergʰ- (“to begin; to command; to rule”)) + -ῐος (-ĭos, suffix meaning ‘of or relating to’ forming adjectives).
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