Definitions for archives

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archives ar·chive

Spelling: [ahr-kahyv]

IPA: /ˈɑr kaɪv/

Archives is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 384 anagrams from letters in archives (acehirsv).

Definitions for archives

noun

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 archives, a place where public records or other historical documents are kept.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:
4. Digital Technology. a long-term storage device, as a disk or magnetic tape, or a computer directory or folder that contains copies of files for backup or future reference. a collection of digital data stored in this way. a computer file containing one or more compressed files. a collection of information permanently stored on the Internet:

verb (used with object)

1. to place or store in an archive:
2. Digital Technology. to compress (computer files) and store them in a single file.

Origin of archives

1595-1605; orig., as plural French archives Latin archī(v)a Greek archeîa, orig. plural of archeîon public office, equivalent to arch(ḗ) magistracy, office + -eion suffix of place

Examples for archives

archives and documents are searched for details about his life and works.

And, as a result, an interesting and important text has burst out of the archives and into public consciousness.

His papers and diaries are in the archives of the Wisconsin Historical Society.

Last year, the Home Office said the dossier had mysteriously disappeared from the archives.

Miss Wright, however, did not use the documents found in other archives.

A deed once deposited in the archives of the Notary is sacred.

In the middle of the court is the donjon, which contains the archives and the treasure.

Filed away within the annals of the New York Historical Society, it escaped the notice of those who oversaw the archives.

These posts are still available in archives that are only viewable to privileged members of the forum.

But it continues to astound me that there are troves of archives that have not been looked at.