Crossword clues for archivist
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Archivist \Ar"chi*vist\, n. [F. archiviste.] A keeper of archives or records. [R.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1753, from Medieval Latin or Italian archivista or French archiviste (see archives).
Wiktionary
n. One who is in charge of, or performs the task of creating, collecting, cataloguing, and organising, archives.
WordNet
n. a person in charge of collecting and cataloguing archives
Wikipedia
An archivist (AR-kiv-ist) is an information professional who assesses, collects, organizes, preserves, maintains control over, and provides access to records and archives determined to have long-term value. The records maintained by an archivist can consist of a variety of forms, including letters, diaries, logs, various other writings, official documents, sound and/or picture recordings, etc.
Archivist can refer to:
- Archivist, an information worker who works in Archives
- The Archivist (book), a novel by Martha Cooley
- the Dungeon & Dragons character class Archivist (Dungeons & Dragons)
Usage examples of "archivist".
He wanted me to understand that his role of archivist was a hugely taxing one.
I had personally led Horstmann to poor Brother Leo and the archivist Brother Padraic, and they had paid for my blundering with their lives.
The records of the Imperial Army were still held in the Invalides, guarded there by a sour-faced archivist who admitted that no one had informed him what he was expected to do with the imperial records.
If it did - the idea was very tenuous - the archivist might remember the man who had drawn that file.
Seems to me she said something about him being at odds with her father and her young er brother when he took over the Archivist position.
The Archivist was seated on a white marble lift bench, holding his winecup in both hands: the Horsemaster stood beside him, leaning over to speak to him with one booted foot on the stone slab, his own cup dangling perilously from loose fingers.
The Archivist was eyeing them with sus picion, but also as if he was trying to recall something.
She rammed her shoulder into it without giving Jadrek a chance to see who was on the other side of it, and shoved it open before the Archivist had time to react.
Then he bowed his head once in respect to the Archivist, and mindspoke to all three of them.
The Archivist reached for the back of a chair beside him to steady himself.
The Archivist was watching them from his chair, and there was a peculiar, painful mixture of hope and fear on his face.
If there was any kind of magetalented spy keeping an eye on Jadrek, use of magic would not only put alerts on the Archivist but on them as well.
Kethry and the Archivist were in the little bedroom that lay beyond the closed door in his sitting room.
The Archivist looked down again, and shuddered, but to his credit, did not protest.
Kethry nodded, thinking of how much pain the Archivist was already in.