archive

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A collection of historical documents or records, or the place where they are kept.

   She spent weeks in the national archive reading old wartime letters.

2. 2
   verb

   To store something, such as documents or data, for safekeeping or future reference.

   I archived last year's emails so my inbox would load faster.

3. 3
   noun

   A single file that holds one or more compressed files together.

   They extracted the archive onto the disk to install the program.

Etymology tree Ancient Greek ᾰ̓́ρχω (ắrkhō) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā) Ancient Greek -η (-ē) Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ρχή (ărkhḗ) Ancient Greek *ἀρχεῖος (*arkheîos) Ancient Greek ἀρχεῖον (arkheîon)bor. Latin archīvumbor. French archives French archiveder. English archive First appears c. 1603 in a translation by Philemon Holland. From French archive(s), from Latin archīvum, from Ancient Greek ἀρχεῖον (arkheîon, “town hall”).

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