archive
noun /ˈɑːkaɪv/
/ˈɑːrkaɪv/
(also archives [plural])
- a collection of historical documents or records of a government, a family, a place or an organization; the place where these records are stored
- the National Sound Archive
- archive film
- The BBC's archives are bulging with material.
Extra ExamplesTopics Historyc1- The data is now held in the company archives.
- We are collecting documents to build up an archive.
- archive footage of the victory celebrations
- He searched through the archives for previous owners of the house.
- It is one of the most important film archives in the world.
- Newsreels make up an archive of great historical value.
- They are trying to create an archive of spoken language.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- extensive
- massive
- rich
- …
- build
- build up
- create
- …
- contain something
- hold something
- include something
- …
- collection
- film
- footage
- …
- among the archives
- from an/the archive
- in an/the archive
- …
- (computing) an electronic record of the data on a computer system, stored on a separate device for safety and security
- Optical media is perfect for storing archives of critical corporate data, such as financial records.
Word Originearly 17th cent. (in the sense ‘place where records are kept’): from French archives (plural), from Latin archiva, archia, from Greek arkheia ‘public records’, from arkhē ‘government’. The verb dates from the late 19th cent.