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archives

noun

Meaning

  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).
  3. Natural deposits of material, regarded as a record of environmental changes over time.
  4. To put into an archive.

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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