Definition of Archive

a collection of historical documents or records providing information about a place, institution, or group of people

Examples of Archive in a sentence

The archive was full of photographs, letters, and historical documents from WWI.  🔊

Students took a trip to the historical archive to find primary documents for their research papers.  🔊

The archive was located in the basement of the library and held perfectly preserved documents that were hundreds of years old.  🔊

Harvard University has an archive filled with oral history interviews from refugees of Stalin’s labor camps.  🔊

Trinity College in Dublin has a massive archive of books so delicate that they can only be handled with special gloves.  🔊

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