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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Ca. 1600, from French archive(s), from Latin archīvum, from Ancient Greek ἀρχεῖον (arkheîon, “town hall”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɑːkaɪv/
Audio (RP) (file) - (General American) enPR: är'kīv', IPA(key): /ˈɑɹkaɪv/
Audio (GA) (file) - Hyphenation: ar‧chive
Noun[edit]
archive (plural archives)
- 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.
- (ecology) Natural deposits of material, regarded as a record of environmental changes over time.
- soil archive peat archive
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
place
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Verb[edit]
archive (third-person singular simple present archives, present participle archiving, simple past and past participle archived)
- (transitive) To place (something) into an archive.
- Synonym: archivize
- I was planning on archiving the documents from 2001.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
to archive
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Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From archives.
Noun[edit]
archive f (plural archives)
Etymology 2[edit]
Verb[edit]
archive
- inflection of archiver:
Further reading[edit]
- “archive”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams[edit]
Spanish[edit]
Verb[edit]
archive
- inflection of archivar:
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