Found 2 items, similar to archive.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: archive archive n : a depository containing historical records and documents [syn: archives] archive v : put into an archive [syn: file away]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Archive Archive \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. [1913 Webster] Our words . . . . become records in God's court, and are laid up in his archives as witnesses. --Gov. of Tongue. [1913 Webster] 2. pl. Public records or documents preserved as evidence of facts; as, the archives of a country or family. [1913 Webster] [Rarely used in sing.] [1913 Webster] Some rotten archive, rummaged out of some seldom explored press. --Lamb. [1913 Webster] Syn: Registers; records; chronicles. [1913 Webster]