archival
Syllables: ar·chiv·al/ɑːˈkaɪv(ə)l//ˌɑɹˈkaɪv(ə)l/
archival adjective: of or pertaining to an archive or archiving.
Adjective
archival (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to an archive or archiving.
- In archival photographs, these lost structures appear almost futuristic (even today) in the way they carried trains across deep ravines on slender, balanced combinations of wrought and cast iron.2021 March 24, Joseph Brennan, “Metallic Marvels from Rail’s Iron Age”, in Rail, number 927, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 59
- Of a material: having a quality suited to the conservational needs of archiving.
- archival boxes archival paper
Noun
archival (countable and uncountable, plural archivals)
- The practice of storing items in an archive; archiving; (countable) an instance of this.
- Our nightly computer backups include the archival of old e-mail messages.
- Synonyms:
- archivation, archivization
archival meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali
archival in Hindi
- अभिलेखीय
archival in Tamil
- சுவடிக்கூடம் சார், ஆவணக் காப்பகம்
archival in Marathi
- अभिलेखीय
archival in Bengali
- আর্কাইভাল
More languagesFewer languages
- archival in Telugu
- ఆర్కైవల్
- archival in Malayalam
- ആർക്കൈവൽ
- archival in Kannada
- ಆರ್ಕೈವಲ್
- archival in Punjabi
- ਆਰਕੀਵਲ
- archival in Gujarati
- આર્કાઇવલ
- archival in Nepali
- अभिलेखीय
Examples of archival in a sentence
- Volumes may be boxed or enclosed in archival containers if necessary.
- The most challenging documentary discoveries were made by a tenacious archival ferret, Dr Antonio Bertoletti.
- Later archival references to the rush “dumbles" are for the River Hull valley.
Synonyms of archival
Forms of archival
| plural | archivals |
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Origin of archival
The adjective is derived from archive (“place for storing earlier, and often historical, material; material so kept, considered as a whole”, noun) + -al (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). The noun is derived from archive (“to put (something) in an archive”, verb) + -al (suffix forming nouns, especially of verbal action).
Words formed from archival
Phrases with archival
Questions about archival
- What does archival mean?
- Archival means of or pertaining to an archive or archiving.
- What is archival in Hindi?
- Archival in Hindi is अभिलेखीय. See Archival meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is archival?
- Archival can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce archival?
- Archival is pronounced /ɑːˈkaɪv(ə)l/ (UK).
Words near archival in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: archival (page history and authors); archival (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); archival (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); archival (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); archival (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); archival (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); archival (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); archival (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); archival (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); archival (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); archival (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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