- an entry in a bibliographic catalogue that describes a part of a larger work that has its own entry
- Pertaining to antiquaries, or to antiquity; as, antiquarian literature.
- Of or pertaining to an archive or archiving.
- Their methods left something to be desired.
- Of a quality suited to the conservational needs of an archive.
- Artists should use -quality paper to ensure a long life for their works on paper.
- A place for store, storing earlier, and often historical, material. An archive usually contains documents (letters, records, newspapers, etc.) or other types of media kept for historical interest.
- The material so kept, considered as a whole (cf. archives).
verb (archiv, ing)
- His of Old High German language texts is the most extensive in Britain.
- To put into an archive.
- I was planning on archiving the documents from 2001.
- One who is in charge of, or performs the task of creating, collecting, cataloguing, and organising, archives.
- The billionaire's will established a trust to create a staff of archivists that would chronicle and preserve his rise to prominence.