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.
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Our words . . . . become records in God's court, and
are laid up in his archives as witnesses. --Gov. of
Tongue.
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2. pl. Public records or documents preserved as evidence of
facts; as, the archives of a country or family.
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Some rotten archive, rummaged out of some seldom
explored press. --Lamb.
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Syn: Registers; records; chronicles.
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