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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

,

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

plural of Archiv

archive

archive

See also: Archive and archivé

English

Noun

archive ‎(plural archives)

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.
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

place for storing earlier material

Arabic: أَرْشِيف m ‎(ʾaršīf)
Armenian: արխիվ (hy) ‎(arxiv)
Bulgarian: архив ‎(arhiv)
Catalan: arxiu (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 檔案 (zh), 档案 (zh) ‎(dàng'àn), 檔案館 (zh), 档案馆 (zh) ‎(dàng'àn'guǎn), 存檔 (zh), 存档 (zh) ‎(cúndàng), 卷宗 (zh) ‎(juànzōng), (computer) 歸檔 (zh), 归档 (zh) ‎(guīdàng)
Czech: archiv (cs) m
Danish: arkiv (da) n
Dutch: archief (nl) n
Esperanto: arkivo, arĥivo
Finnish: arkisto (fi)
French: archives (fr) f pl
Galician: arquivo m
Gallurese: alciu
German: Archiv (de) n
Greek: αρχείο (el) n ‎(archeío)
Hausa: rumbun
Hungarian: levéltár (hu), irattár (hu), okmánytár, archívum (hu)
Indonesian: arsip (id)
Interlingua: archivo
Irish: cartlann f, aircív f

Italian: archivio (it) m, banca dati f
Japanese: 書庫 (ja) ‎(しょこ, shoko), 文書の保管所 ‎(ぶんしょのほかんしょ, bunsho-no hokansho), アーカイブ (ja) ‎(ākaibu) (computer)
Korean: 보존 (ko) ‎(bojon), 보관 (ko) ‎(bogwan), 공문서 ‎(gongmunseo) (Hanja: 公文書 (ko))
Latin: archium n
Lithuanian: archyvas m
Malay: arkib (ms)
Maori: pūranga, whare pūranga
Pashto: خونديځ (ps)
Persian: بایگانی (fa)
Polish: archiwum (pl)
Portuguese: arquivo (pt) m
Romanian: arhivă (ro) f
Russian: архи́в (ru) m ‎(arxív)
Sassarese: archíbiu
Serbo-Croatian: arhiv (sh) m
Spanish: archivo (es) m
Swedish: arkiv (sv) n
Tagalog: sinupan
Turkish: arşiv (tr), belgelik (tr)
Volapük: ragiv (vo)

Verb

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

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

Translations

to archive

Armenian: արխիվացնել ‎(arxivacʿnel)
Bulgarian: архивирам (bg) ‎(arhiviram)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 檔案 (zh), 档案 (zh) ‎(dàng'àn), 歸檔 (zh), 归档 (zh) ‎(guīdàng)
Czech: archivovat (cs)
Danish: arkivere (da)
Dutch: archiveren (nl)
Finnish: arkistoida
French: archiver (fr)
German: archivieren (de)
Greek: αρχειοθετώ (el) ‎(archeiothetó)
Hungarian: archivál (hu)
Indonesian: mengarsipkan (id)

Interlingua: archivar
Italian: archiviare (it)
Japanese: アーカイブに格納する ‎(ākaibu-ni kakunō-suru)
Norman: archiver
Korean: 보존하다 (ko) ‎(bojonhada), 보관하다 (ko) ‎(bogwanhada)
Lithuanian: archyvuoti
Maori: whakaputu, pūranga
Portuguese: arquivar (pt)
Romanian: arhiva
Russian: архиви́ровать (ru) ‎(arxivírovatʹ)
Serbo-Croatian: arhivirati (sh)
Spanish: archivar (es)
Swedish: arkivera (sv)
Turkish: arşivlemek (tr), belgeliklemek

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /aʁ.ʃiv/

Noun

archive f ‎(plural archives)

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

Verb

archive

first-person singular present indicative of archiver
third-person singular present indicative of archiver
first-person singular present subjunctive of archiver
first-person singular present subjunctive of archiver
second-person singular imperative of archiver

Anagrams

chavire, chaviré

Spanish

Verb

archive

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