What is the meaning of Archive?

Chiefly in the form archives.

2. A repository or other place for storing material (such as documents and records) no longer in current use, and usually having historical value.

   A repository or other place for storing material (such as documents and records) no longer in current use, and usually having historical value.

   The material so stored, considered as a whole.

   A natural deposit of material, regarded as a record of environmental changes over time.

   A collection, a repository.

   To place or store (something, such as a document or record) in an archive (noun sense 1.1).

   To transfer (less used or obsolete data, files, etc.) to a storage medium for long-term storage.

   an item in an archive, a document kept for historical interest

   singular of archives

   inflection of archiver:

   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

   first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive

   second-person singular imperative

   inflection of archivar:

   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

   first/third-person singular present subjunctive

   third-person singular imperative

   Source: wiktionary.org