HIGH vocabulary
Archive
A collection of historical documents or records providing information about a place, institution, or group of people.
Example
"The historian spent months examining dusty letters in the city's national archive."
Etymology
From French 'archives', via Latin from Greek 'arkheia' (public records), from 'arkhē' (government, rule).
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