Meaning

1 senses
  1. One who is in charge of, or performs the task of creating, collecting, cataloguing and organising archives.

    The billionaire’s will established a trust to create a staff of archivists that would chronicle and preserve his rise to prominence.

    Archivar, Archivarin

    архива́риусarxivárius, архиви́стarxivíst, архиви́сткаarxivístka

    архіва́ріусarxivárius

    a person in charge of collecting and cataloguing archives

Examples

3 sentences
  1. Archivists have been arguing for copyright reform for years.

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  2. Tom is an archivist.

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  3. Picasso was no clown. He was a sarcastic commentator on a confused age, a great archivist of humanity's foolishness.

    dePicasso war kein Clown. Er war ein sarkastischer Kommentator seines verwirrten Zeitalters, ein großer Archivar der menschlichen Dummheit.

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Translations

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one who creates, maintains or controls archives:
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one who creates, maintains or controls archives:

Forms

plural: archivists
Singulararchivist
Pluralarchivists

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms
one who creates, maintains or controls archives:historianB1librarianB1preservationistC2archiverscriberecordkeeper

Word family

1 related words
Relatedarchive

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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