ARCHIVES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does archives mean? 

• ARCHIVES (noun)
  The noun ARCHIVES has 1 sense:

1. collection of records especially about an institution

  Familiarity information: ARCHIVES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARCHIVES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Collection of records especially about an institution

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("archives" is a kind of...):

collection; compendium (a publication containing a variety of works)

 Context examples 

A "calendar" of the past has revolutionized the dating of geologic archives, identifying ages of geologic periods based on astronomy.

(Deep-sea sediments lead to new understanding of solar system, National Science Foundation)

I fancy that among your extensive archives, Watson, you may find some which were nearly as obscure.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was a mighty consolation to us all to know that you were runnin' loose and had the archives in your keepin'.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Researchers Emily Sneff and Danielle Allen found the document in the archives of the small town of Chichester in Sussex, in southern England.

(Parchment Copy of Declaration of Independence Found in Small British Town, VOA)

It is sufficient to know that the name to which I do myself the honour to refer, will ever be treasured among the muniments of our house (I allude to the archives connected with our former lodgers, preserved by Mrs. Micawber), with sentiments of personal esteem amounting to affection.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Sheldon says it's the latest and greatest in machine learning to extract bird data from the radar record and to take advantage of the treasure trove of bird migration information in the decades-long radar data archives.

(Using artificial intelligence to track birds' dark-of-night migrations, National Science Foundation)

Changes in these parameters can be identified in rock or sediment archives, like fingerprints left behind.

(Deep-sea sediments lead to new understanding of solar system, National Science Foundation)