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archived

archived is the simple past and past participle of archive.

Meaning of archive

Verb

archive (third-person singular simple present archives, present participle archiving, simple past and past participle archived)

  1. (transitive) To place or store (something, such as a document or record) in an archive (noun sense 1.1).
    • I was planning on archiving the documents from 2001.
    Synonyms:
    archivize, file away
  2. (transitive) To transfer (less used or obsolete data, files, etc.) to a storage medium for long-term storage.

See all 6 meanings of archive

Adjective

archived (not comparable)

  1. Having been placed into an archive.

Words formed from archived

Questions about archived

What does archived mean?
Archived means having been placed into an archive.
What is archived the simple past and past participle of?
Archived is the simple past and past participle of archive.
What part of speech is archived?
Archived is an adjective.

Words near archived in the dictionary

  1. archivation
  2. archivations
  3. archive
  4. archive box
  5. archive boxes
  6. archived
  7. archiver
  8. archivers
  9. archives
  10. archiving
  11. archivings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: archived (page history and authors); archive (page history and authors). 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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