archive
noun
- agency or institution responsible for the preservation and communication of records selected for permanent preservation
- whole of the documents made and received by a juridical or physical person or organization in the conduct of affairs, and preserved
verb
- to file or collect in or as if in an archive
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈɑːkaɪv/ / /ˈɑɹkaɪv/ / /ˈaː.kɑɪv/
noun
Etymology: 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”).
- 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 They tell you “the stories behind things,” he said, “the unpublished, the hard to find, the true story.”
- 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”
verb
Etymology: 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”).
- To place (something) into an archive.
“I was planning on archiving the documents from 2001.”