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archive

[ ahr-kahyv ]

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noun

Usually archives. documents or records relating to the activities, business dealings, etc., of a person, family, corporation, association, community, or nation.
archives, a place where public records or other historical documents are kept.
any extensive record or collection of data:
The encyclopedia is an archive of world history. The experience was sealed in the archive of her memory.
Digital Technology.
1. a long-term storage device, as a disk or magnetic tape, or a computer directory or folder that contains copies of files for backup or future reference.
2. a collection of digital data stored in this way.
3. a computer file containing one or more compressed files.
4. a collection of information permanently stored on the internet:
  The magazine has its entire archive online, from 1923 to the present.

verb (used with object)

archived, archiving.

to place or store in an archive:
to vote on archiving the city's historic documents.
Digital Technology. to compress (computer files) and store them in a single file.

noun

a collection of records of or about an institution, family, etc
a place where such records are kept
computing data transferred to a tape or disk for long-term storage rather than frequent use

verb

to store (documents, data, etc) in an archive or other repository

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Derived Forms

��ˈ��󾱱��, adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of archive¹

First recorded in 1595–1605; originally, as plural, from French archives, from the Late Latin plural noun archīva, archīa “public records,” from Greek ��î�� “public records,” plural of ��î�ǲ� “town hall, public office,” equivalent to ��ḗ “magistracy, office” + -eion suffix of location

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Word History and Origins

Origin of archive¹

C17: from Late Latin ��ī��ܳ�, from Greek arkheion repository of official records, from ��ŧ government

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Example Sentences

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Their archives, as Pember reports, are often inaccessible; a bureaucratic fog obscures much of the record.

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“Somebody broke into my garage, which is my studio, and stole 15 years’ worth of archives, and my laptop.

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The military council's photo archives show that several government buildings, including the Ministry of Labour, Ministry of Planning and the Court of the Union were severely damaged in the earthquake.

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Those cities — which ended up with no damage from the fires — initiated their evacuations before the final late alert was issued for west Altadena at 5:42 a.m., according to records of archived alerts.

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As brilliant as he was blunt, his immortal jokes live on in an archive of comedy albums throughout his career.

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