Archive, or Is It Archives? (2024)

FAQs

Is it an archive or an archives? ›

“Archives” is generally preferred over the term “archive” in the United States and Canada, even when referring to a single noun.

Either can be used interchangeably and are both correct. The word has multiple meanings: Archives are records that have been selected for permanent preservation by the person or organization that created them. An archives is the place or repository where those records are housed and preserved.

"Archives" is one of those words that can be either singular or plural, though it is relatively common to drop the "s" when referring to the singular. "Archives" can refer to a collection of archival materials, the facility in which the materials are stored, or the organization that collects and maintains them.

Achieve is a verb meaning to achieve. An archive is a collection of historical documents, regardless of the medium or the physical object in which they reside.

These old photographs should go in the family archives. a place where historical records are kept: I've been studying village records in the local archive.

An archives is a place where people can go to gather firsthand facts, data, and evidence from letters, reports, notes, memos, photographs, and other primary sources.

Whether you delete or archive an email message, it disappears from your inbox. A deleted message goes into the trash folder, but an archived message is defaulted to the Archive folder or All Mail on Gmail / Google Apps.

A collection of documents created or gathered by one person or institution and selected for long-term preservation as evidence of their activities. The format of these documents does not matter; they can be medieval parchment documents, maps, photographs or even digital files.

Well, I think most of you guessed it correctly, but for those who did not guess it correctly, the correct pronunciation is archive. So we do not say the Ch sound in this word, but instead we say it with the K sound.

What is the verb of archives? ›

verb (used with object)

, ar·chived, ar·chiv·ing. to place or store in an archive: to vote on archiving the city's historic documents.

In the case of the noun, the faux plural “archives” is preferred in North American professional discourse—although “archive” is preferred in the rest of the English-speaking world.

The French National Archives, which possess perhaps the largest archival collection in the world (with records going as far back as 625 A.D.), was created in 1790 during the Revolution from various government, religious, and private archives seized by the revolutionaries.

The word "archive" has two basic meanings: (1) a collection of records held by an individual, a firm, an agency, etc.; (2) an institution or physical building that houses and manages archival collections. The plural form of the word is used when referring to multiple collections or institutions that are unconnected.

The archives of an individual may include letters, papers, photographs, computer files, scrapbooks, financial records, or diaries created or collected by the individual, regardless of medium or format.