Noun

(en noun)

A storage facility, in particular, a warehouse.

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(US) A bus or railway station.

A place where military recruits are assembled before being sent to active units.

(card games) The tableau; the area where cards can be arranged in solitaire or patience games.

Noun

(en noun)

A place for 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 (compare archives).

His archive of Old High German language texts is the most extensive in Britain.