archive

archive
/ahr"kuyv/, n., v., archived, archiving.
n.
1. Usually, archives. documents or records relating to the activities, business dealings, etc., of a person, family, corporation, association, community, or nation.
2. archives, a place where public records or other historical documents are kept.
3. any extensive record or collection of data: The encyclopedia is an archive of world history. The experience was sealed in the archive of her memory.
v.t.
4. to place or store in an archive: to vote on archiving the city's historic documents.
[1595-1605; orig., as pl. < F archives < L archi(v)a < Gk archeîa, orig. pl. of ARCHEÎON public office, equiv. to arch(é) magistracy, office + -eion suffix of place]

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