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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Archive \Ar"chive\, n.; pl {Archives}. [F. archives, pl., L. archivum archium fr Gr ? government house, ? ? archives, fr ? the first place government. See {Archi-}, pref.] 1. pl The place in which public records or historic documents are kept. Our words . . . . become records in God's court, and are laid up in his archives as witnesses. --Gov. of Tongue. 2. pl Public records or documents preserved as evidence of facts; as the archives of a country or family. [Rarely used in sing.] Some rotten archive, rummaged out of some seldom explored press. --Lamb. Syn: Registers; records; chronicles. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: archives n 1: collection of records especially about an institution 2: contains historical records and documents [syn: {archive}]
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