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ARCHIVIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does archivist mean? 

ARCHIVIST (noun)
  The noun ARCHIVIST has 1 sense:

1. a person in charge of collecting and cataloguing archivesplay

  Familiarity information: ARCHIVIST used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ARCHIVIST (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A person in charge of collecting and cataloguing archives

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("archivist" is a kind of...):

aggregator; collector (a person who collects things)

Derivation:

archive (a depository containing historical records and documents)


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