Definition of Archivist

1. Noun. A person in charge of collecting and cataloguing archives.

Generic synonyms: Aggregator, Collector
Derivative terms: Archive

Definition of Archivist

1. n. A keeper of archives or records.

Definition of Archivist

1. Noun. One who is in charge of, or performs the task of creating, collecting, cataloguing, and organising, archives. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Archivist

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Archivist

architrave
architraved
architraves
archivable
archival
archival science
archival sciences
archivalism
archivally
archive
archived
archiver
archivers
archives
archiving
archivist (current term)
archivists
archivolt
archivolts
archizoic
archlet
archlets
archlike
archlute
archlutes
archly
archmage
archmages
archmagi
archmagician

Literary usage of Archivist

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Home and Foreign Review (1863)
"The present archivist, Don Manuel Garcia Gonzalez, has been engaged at Simancas for nearly fifty years, and appears to have afforded willing assistance to ..."

2. Four Years in the Ionian Islands: Their Political and Social Condition. With edited by Viscount Kirkwall (1864)
"... the archivist, the oldest and staunchest friend of the British Protectorate. I inspected with him a number of old documents} and he imparted to me much ..."

3. Canadian Catalogue of Books by Willet Ricketson Haight (1896)
"By Douglas Brym- ner, archivist. 1882. Being appendix 1 to report of the Minister of Agriculture. 2+ 94 pp. Ottawa: Printed by Maclean, Roger & Co. 1883. ..."

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