noun🔗ShareA place for storing earlier, and often historical, material. An archive usually contains documents (letters, records, newspapers, etc.) or other types of media kept for historical interest."The historian visited the national archives to research old government documents. "historyplaceorganizationbuildingChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareThe material so kept, considered as a whole (compare archives)."His archive of Old High German texts is the most extensive in Britain."historywritingorganizationChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareNatural deposits of material, regarded as a record of environmental changes over time."soil archive; peat archive"geologyenvironmentnaturearchaeologyhistoryscienceChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo put into an archive."I was planning on archiving the documents from 2001."historyorganizationwritinggovernmentChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
