archive
//ˈɑːkaɪv//
Forms
- Plural
- archives
- present (v1)
- archive
- past (v2)
- archived
- past participle (v3)
- archived
- present participle
- archiving
- 3rd person singular
- archives
Definitions
1.A collection, a repository.
2.Chiefly in the form archives.
- His archive of Old High German texts is the most extensive in Britain.
- "I don't know how one could be interested in libraries and not archives," [Thomas] Lannon told me. They tell you "the stories behind things," he said, "the unpublished, the hard to find, the true story."
1.To transfer (less used or obsolete data, files, etc.) to a storage medium for long-term storage.
2.To place or store (something, such as a document or record) in an archive (noun sense 1.1).
- The library archives some of its older books.
- I was planning on archiving the documents from 2001.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4336
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ergʰ-der.?
Ancient Greek ἄρχω (árkhō)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)
Ancient Greek -η (-ē)
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ρχή (ărkhḗ)
Ancient Greek *ἀρχεῖος (*arkheîos)