archive
[noun]
Synonyms:
- record office, museum, registry, repository
- archives: records, annals, chronicles, documents, papers, rolls

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Related Words: papers, parchments, scrolls, writings, clippings, cuttings, excerpts, extracts, fragments, gleanings, remains

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

I. ar‧chive¹ /ˈɑːkaɪv $ ˈɑːr-/ noun [countable]
[Date: 1600-1700; Language: French; Origin: Latin archivum, from Greek archeion 'government building' (in plural, 'official documents'), from arche 'rule, government']

1. a place where a large number of historical records are stored, or the records that are stored:
an archive of the writer’s unpublished work

2. technical copies of a computer’s files that are stored on a disk or in the computer’s memory in a way that uses less space than usual, so that the computer can keep them for a long time
—archive adjective:
interesting archive material
—archival /ɑːˈkaɪvəl $ ɑːr-/ adjective:
archival footage of the President’s visit in 1969

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

II. archive² verb [transitive]

1. to put documents, books, information etc in an archive

2. to save a computer file in a way that uses less space than usual, because you do not use that file often but may need it in the future
—archiving noun [uncountable]:
electronic archiving systems

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

archive
noun
ADJ. extensive | electronic, film, photo/photographic, sound The programme is preserved in the BBC sound archives.
company, corporate, county, family, local, national, official, personal, private, state
VERB + ARCHIVE build up, create, set up collecting documents to build up an archive
house, keep, maintain the person responsible for keeping the archives the building which houses the state archives
hold sth in, keep sth in, preserve sth in The data is now held in the company archives.
consult, examine, look through
ARCHIVE + VERB contain sth, hold sth
ARCHIVE + NOUN collection | film, footage archive foortage of the victory celebrations
material
PREP. among/amongst the ~s There are many clues hidden amongst the archives of the local museum.
from an/the ~ some photographs from the library's archives
in an/the ~ No record of this letter exists in the archives.

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