Archives
['a:kaivz]
Definition
(noun.) collection of records especially about an institution.
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Definition
(pl. ) of Archive
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. pl. [1]. Registry, record-office.[2]. Records, chronicles, registers, ANNALS, historical accounts.
Editor: Michel
Definition
n. the place in which government records are kept: (pl.) public records—also figuratively in both senses.—adj. Arch′ival pertaining to or contained in archives or records.—n. Arch′ivist a keeper of archives or records.
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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.
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