archives
檔案,公文,案卷保管處,檔案室
Ar·chive n.; pl. Archives
1. pl. 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. pl. Public records or documents preserved as evidence of facts; as, the archives of a country or family.
[Rarely used in sing.]
Some rotten archive, rummaged out of some seldom explored press. --Lamb.
Syn: -- Registers; records; chronicles.
◄ ►
archives
n 1: collection of records especially about an institution
2: a depository containing historical records and documents
[syn: archive]