noun Chiefly in the form archives. A repository or other place for storing material (such as documents and records) no longer in current use, and usually having historical value.
His archive of Old High German texts is the most extensive in Britain.
noun A repository or other place for storing material (such as documents and records) no longer in current use, and usually having historical value.
noun The material so stored, considered as a whole.
His archive of Old High German texts is the most extensive in Britain.
noun A natural deposit of material, regarded as a record of environmental changes over time.
peat archive soil archive
noun A collection, a repository.
verb To place or store (something, such as a document or record) in an archive (noun sense 1.1).
I was planning on archiving the documents from 2001.
verb To transfer (less used or obsolete data, files, etc.) to a storage medium for long-term storage.