ar·chive

(är′kīv′)

1. often archives A place or collection containing records, documents, or other materials of historical interest: old land deeds in the municipal archives.

2. Computers

a. A long-term storage area, often on magnetic tape, for backup copies of files or for files that are no longer in active use.

b. A file containing one or more files in compressed format for more efficient storage and transfer.

3. A repository for stored memories or information: the archive of the mind.

tr.v. ar·chived, ar·chiv·ing, ar·chives

1. To place or store in an archive.

2. Computers To copy or compress (a file) into an archive.

[From French archives, from Latin archīva, from Greek arkheia, pl. of arkheion, town hall, from arkhē, government, from arkhein, to rule.]

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archives

(ˈɑːkaɪvz)

pl n

another term for archive¹, archive²

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Noun

archives - collection of records especially about an institution

compendium, collection - a publication containing a variety of works

Translations

سِجِلّات، أرشيف

archiv

arkiv

Archiv

archivo

archives

levéltár

skjalasafn

archivio archivista

archivarasarchyvas

arhīvs

arkiv

archív

arşiv

档案档案室档案馆

archives

pl → Archiv nt

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archives

[ˈɑːkaɪvz] npl → archivio msg, archivi mpl

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archives

(ˈaːkaivz) noun plural

(a place for keeping) old documents, historical records etc.

ˈarchivist (-ki-) noun

a person who looks after archives.

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Here is the text of the dispatch, which figures now in the archives of the Gun Club:

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Meanwhile, however, it is fast locked and buried deep in the archives of the club.

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And there the following certificate was drawn up in the terms in which it appears to-day, in the archives of the Royal Geographical Society of London:

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No published history mentions this little lost prince; only the secret archives of the kings of England tell the story of his strange and adventurous life.

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And there was a place and everything waiting for him in the Archives Department!

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Richard and Moncharmin, by little Meg herself (the worthy Madame Giry, I am sorry to say, is no more) and by Sorelli, who is now living in retirement at Louveciennes: all the documents relating to the existence of the ghost, which I propose to deposit in the archives of the Opera, have been checked and confirmed by a number of important discoveries of which I am justly proud.

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I suggested to Perry that we were in the public library of Phutra, but later, as he commenced to discover the key to their written language, he assured me that we were handling the ancient archives of the race.

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One room in the building was devoted to the preservation of ancient archives. There they showed us no end of aged documents; some were signed by Popes, some by Tilly and other great generals, and one was a letter written and subscribed by Go"tz von Berlichingen in Heilbronn in 1519 just after his release from the Square Tower.

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That night the housekeeper burned to ashes all the books that were in the yard and in the whole house; and some must have been consumed that deserved preservation in everlasting archives, but their fate and the laziness of the examiner did not permit it, and so in them was verified the proverb that the innocent suffer for the guilty.

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I might collect vouchers in abundance from the records and archives of every State in the Union.

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"My Lords," said the President to the Junior Circles of the Council, "there is not the slightest need for surprise; the secret archives, to which I alone have access, tell me that a similar occurrence happened on the last two millennial commencements.

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In the conventual buildings attached to this church are the state archives of Venice.

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