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Meaning of Archive | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Standard
ˈɑːkaɪv

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

العربية أرشيف الأرشيف
Azərbaycanca arxiv
Български архив
Bosanski архив
Català arxiu
Čeština archiv archivovat
Dansk arkiv arkivere
Español archivar archivo
Eesti arhiiv
Français archivé archive Archiver Archives
Gaeilge aircív cartlann
Gàidhlig tasg-lann
Galego arquivo
עברית ארכיון
हिन्दी पुरालेख
Hrvatski архив
Հայերեն արխիվ
Bahasa Indonesia arsip mengarsipkan
ქართული არქივი
Қазақша архив мұрағат
ខ្មែរ ប័ណ្ណសារ
Kurdî arşîv
Lietuvių archyvas
Latviešu arhīvs
Македонски архив
Монгол архив
Bahasa Melayu arkib
Nederlands archief archiveren
Português arquivar arquivo
Română arhivă
Slovenčina archivovať
Shqip arkiv
Српски архив
Svenska arkiv arkivera
Türkçe arşiv arşivlemek
Українська архів

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 They tell you “the stories behind things,” he said, “the unpublished, the hard to find, the true story.”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”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
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