archives
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Definitions
noun
- A place for storing earlier, and often historical, material. An archive usually contains documents (letters, records, newspapers, etc.) or other types of media kept for historical interest.
- The material so kept, considered as a whole (compare archives).“His archive of Old High German texts is the most extensive in Britain.”
- Natural deposits of material, regarded as a record of environmental changes over time.“soil archive; peat archive”
verb
- To put into an archive.“I was planning on archiving the documents from 2001.”
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Synonyms
archivalarchivistarchivistscataloguesdocumentsdossiersfilefilesfilingfootagehistoricalholdingslibrarymorguephotoportraits