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# archive

«archive» in Mova's school dictionary: **a place where old records, papers and documents are kept…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (archives)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An archive is a place where old records, papers and documents are kept safe for many years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/archive/#m1)

2) An archive is also a collection of such records, or an online store of old pages and files. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/archive/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in the lessons a store of old papers or scanned old pages from long-ago books; in stories a room full of dusty records

### examples

- The old letters are kept in the archive. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/archive/#x1)
- We found the map in the local archive. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/archive/#x2)
- The book's pages are in an online archive. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/archive/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «archive» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/archive/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.