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Archive

/ˈɑɹkaɪv/

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.

📖 Definitions of "Archive"

noun
  1. 1

    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.

  2. 2

    The material so kept, considered as a whole (compare archives).

    "His archive of Old High German texts is the most extensive in Britain."

  3. 3

    Natural deposits of material, regarded as a record of environmental changes over time.

    "soil archive; peat archive"

verb
  1. 1

    To put into an archive.

    "I was planning on archiving the documents from 2001."

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