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Webster 1913 Edition


Archive

Ar′chive

,
Noun.
;
pl.
Archives
.
[F.
archives
, pl., L.
archivum
,
archium
, fr. Gr. [GREEK] government house, [GREEK] [GREEK] archives, fr. [GREEK] 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.

Definition 2024


Archive

Archive

See also: archive and archivé

German

Noun

Archive

  1. plural of Archiv

archive

archive

See also: Archive and archivé

English

Noun

archive (plural archives)

  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. The material so kept, considered as a whole (compare archives).
    His archive of Old High German language texts is the most extensive in Britain.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

archive (third-person singular simple present archives, present participle archiving, simple past and past participle archived)

  1. To put into an archive.
    I was planning on archiving the documents from 2001.

Translations


French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aʁ.ʃiv/

Noun

archive f (plural archives)

  1. an item in an archive, a document kept for historical interest
  2. (in the plural) archive, archives

Verb

archive

  1. first-person singular present indicative of archiver
  2. third-person singular present indicative of archiver
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of archiver
  4. first-person singular present subjunctive of archiver
  5. second-person singular imperative of archiver

Anagrams


Spanish

Verb

archive

  1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of archivar.
  2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of archivar.
  3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of archivar.
  4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of archivar.