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.

   ““I don’t know how one could be interested in libraries and not archives,” Lannon told me. They tell you “the stories behind things,” he said, “the unpublished, the hard to find, the true story.”

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. (transitive)To place (something) into an archive.

   “I was planning on archiving the documents from 2001.”