archive
/ˈɑɹkaɪv/IPA: /AA1 R K AY0 V/
noun
- 1
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.
- 2
The material so kept, considered as a whole (compare archives).
“His archive of Old High German texts is the most extensive in Britain.”
- 3
Natural deposits of material, regarded as a record of environmental changes over time.
“soil archive; peat archive”
verb
- 1
To put into an archive.
“I was planning on archiving the documents from 2001.”
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