C2adjectiveformalmediaacademic
US/ɑːrˈkaɪ.vəl/
UK/ɑːˈkaɪ.vəl/
connected with old documents, films or records kept as history
In context
The documentary uses archival footage of Hanoi in the 1950s.
She spent months doing archival research in Paris for her thesis.
The museum stores its archival material in cool, dry rooms.
Words that go with archival
adjective + noun
- archival footageThe news report included archival footage of the first flight.
- archival researchArchival research showed the letters were genuine.
- archival materialThe library has a lot of archival material on the colonial period.
- archival recordsArchival records list every ship that entered the port.
- archival photographsThe book is full of archival photographs of old Saigon.