01 n. The place in which public records or historic documents are kept.
pl.
Archives
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The place in which public records or historic documents are kept.“Our words . . . . become records in God's court, and are laid up in his archives as witnesses.” — Gov. of Tongue.
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2.
Public records or documents preserved as evidence of facts; as, the archives of a country or family.“Some rotten archive, rummaged out of some seldom explored press.” — Lamb.
Syn.
Registers; records; chronicles.