{
    "term": "archive",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a collection of historical documents or records of a government, a family, a place or an organization; the place where these records are stored",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the National Sound Archive"
                },
                {
                    "text": "archive film"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The BBC's archives are bulging with material."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The data is now held in the company archives."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We are collecting documents to build up an archive."
                },
                {
                    "text": "archive footage of the victory celebrations"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He searched through the archives for previous owners of the house."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It is one of the most important film archives in the world."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Newsreels make up an archive of great historical value."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They are trying to create an archive of spoken language."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["History"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["extensive", "massive", "rich"],
                "verb + archive": ["build", "build up", "create"],
                "archive + verb": [
                    "contain something",
                    "hold something",
                    "include something"
                ],
                "archive + noun": ["collection", "film", "footage"],
                "preposition": [
                    "among the archives",
                    "from an/​the archive",
                    "in an/​the archive"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "an electronic record of the data on a computer system, stored on a separate device for safety and security",
            "labels": "(computing)",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Optical media is perfect for storing archives of critical corporate data, such as financial records."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Computers"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈɑːkaɪv/",
                "audio": "ar/archive/archive__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈɑːrkaɪv/",
                "audio": "ar/archive/archive__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "early 17th cent. (in the sense ‘place where records are kept’): from French archives (plural), from Latin archiva, archia, from Greek arkheia ‘public records’, from arkhē ‘government’. The verb dates from the late 19th cent."
}