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# archives

«archives» in Mova's school dictionary: **the old records and papers of a town, a country or a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (archives, plural only)

### meaning for a pupil

The archives are the old records and papers of a town, a country or a family, kept together in one place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/archives/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories the old records of a kingdom, which kings order to be checked or copied; in the lessons the old files of a place

### examples

- The king's laws are kept in the royal archives. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/archives/#x1)
- The old papers were found in the archives. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/archives/#x2)
- The archives tell us about the old kings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/archives/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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