Archive
['ɑrkaɪv]
Definition
(noun.) a depository containing historical records and documents.
(verb.) put into an archive.
Typist: Theodore--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The place in which public records or historic documents are kept.
(n.) Public records or documents preserved as evidence of facts; as, the archives of a country or family.
Editor: Rosalie
Examples
- In the conventual buildings attached to this church are the state archives of Venice. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Drum, trumpetbugle, had uttered their clangour, and were forgotten; with pencil-ray she wrote on heaven and on earth records for archives everlasting. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The governor, Sherman says, was careful to carry away even his garden vegetables, while he left the archives of the State to fall into our hands. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Among them are manuscripts from the archives of nearly two thousand families, monasteries and convents. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Editor: Matt