Archive

Ar·chive

Archive

n.

pl. Archives

  1. 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.
  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.