Archive

Definitions

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).
3. file
4. Natural deposits of material, regarded as a record of environmental changes over time.
5. filing cabinet
6. first-person singular present indicative of archivar

Equivalents

Examples

““I don’t know⟳ how one could be interested in libraries and not archives,” Lannon told me. They tell⟳ you “the stories behind things,” he said, “the unpublished, the hard to find⟳, the true story.”

“His archive of Old High German texts is the most extensive in Britain.”

“soil archive”

“peat archive”

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