About The Word Archive
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Archive
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What's The Definition Of Archive?
[n] a depository containing historical records and documents
[v] put into an archive Synonyms | Synonyms for Archive: archives | file away Related Terms | Find terms related to Archive: See Also | chancery | collect | deposit | depository | pull in | repository Archive In Webster's Dictionary \Ar"chive\, n.; pl. {Archives}. [F. archives, pl., L.
archivum, archium, fr. Gr. ? government house, ? ? archives,
fr. ? 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.
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