Online dictionaryOnline dictionary
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Archive   Listen
noun
Archive  n.  (pl. archives)  
1.
pl. The place in which public records or historic documents are kept. "Our words... become records in God's court, and are laid up in his archives as witnesses."
2.
pl. Public records or documents preserved as evidence of facts; as, the archives of a country or family. (Rarely used in sing.) "Some rotten archive, rummaged out of some seldom explored press."
Synonyms: Registers; records; chronicles.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |
Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar




"Archive" Quotes from Famous Books



... no castle, and no natural circle, in which I might live, like the wise Makaria, observing my kindred the stars, and gradually enriching my archives. Makaria here must go abroad, or the stars would hide their light, and the archive remain a blank. ...
— Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Vol. I • Margaret Fuller Ossoli


Words linked to "Archive" :   deposit, chancery, file away, repository, collect, pull in


Copyright © 2024 Dictionary One.com