archive

Meaning of archive

noun
  1. A 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.
  2. The material so kept, considered as a whole (compare archives).
    His archive of Old High German texts is the most extensive in Britain.
  3. Natural deposits of material, regarded as a record of environmental changes over time.
    soil archive; peat archive
verb
  1. To put into an archive.
    I was planning on archiving the documents from 2001.

Information about archive

Hyphenation of archive

ar-chive

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • archive is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Translation of archive

Words that rhyme with archive

hive, chive, Beehive, beehive, inhive, unhive, superhive, underhive, shive

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