Picasso was no clown. He was a sarcastic commentator on a confused age, a great archivist of humanity's foolishness.
Source: tatoeba (2372072)
Archivist
//ˈɑː(ɹ)kɪvɪst//
Synonyms for "archivist" (33 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (7)
Strong matches (10)
Related words (16)
Related word relations
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Translations
105 translations across 65 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- argivaris noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Albanian
2 entries- arkivist noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
- arkiviste noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Armenian
1 entries- արխիվարիուս noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Asturian
2 entries- archivera noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
- archivero noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- arxivçi noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Basque
2 entries- agirizain noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
- artxibozain noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Breton
1 entries- diellour noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Bulgarian
1 entries- архивар noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Catalan
2 entries- arxiver noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
- arxivista noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 档案员 noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Czech
2 entries- archivář noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
- archivářka noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Danish
1 entries- arkivar noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Dutch
1 entries- archivaris noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Esperanto
2 entries- arkivisto noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
- arĥivisto noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Faroese
1 entries- skjalavørður noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Finnish
1 entries- arkistonhoitaja noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
French
1 entries- archiviste noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Galician
3 entries- arquiveira noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
- arquiveiro noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
- arquivista noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
German
2 entries- Archivar noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
- Archivarin noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Greek
1 entries- αρχειοφύλακας noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Hindi
1 entries- पुराभिलेखपाल noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Hungarian
2 entries- levéltáros noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
- levéltárosnő noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Icelandic
1 entries- skjalavörður noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Ido
1 entries- arkivisto noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Indonesian
2 entries- arsiparis noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
- pengarsip noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Interlingua
1 entries- archivista noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Irish
1 entries- cartlannaí noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Italian
1 entries- archivista noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Japanese
1 entries- アーキビスト noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Kannada
1 entries- ಸಂಗ್ರಹಕಾರರನ್ನು noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Kazakh
1 entries- мұрағатшы noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Korean
1 entries- 기록연구사 noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- архивчи noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Latin
3 entries- archeota noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
- chartarius noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
- chartularius noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Latvian
1 entries- arhivārs noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Lithuanian
1 entries- archyvaras noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Lower Sorbian
2 entries- archiwar noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
- archiwarka noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Luxembourgish
2 entries- Archivist noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
- Archivistin noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Macedonian
2 entries- архивар noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
- архивистка noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Manx
1 entries- recortysser noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Mongolian
1 entries- архивч noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Māori
2 entries- kaipūranga noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
- kaipūranga kōrero noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- arşîvger noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
- arşîvvan noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- arkivar noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- arkivar noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Occitan
1 entries- archivista noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Polish
4 entries- archiwariusz noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
- archiwariuszka noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
- archiwista noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
- archiwistka noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Portuguese
2 entries- arquivador noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
- arquivista noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Romagnol
2 entries- archivèsta noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
- archivèstar noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Romanian
3 entries- arhivar noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
- arhivist noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
- arhivistă noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Russian
3 entries- архива́риус noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
- архиви́ст noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
- архиви́стка noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- arhìvist noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
- arhìvistkinja noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
- arhìvār noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
- arhìvārka noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Slovak
2 entries- archivár noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
- archivárka noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Slovene
2 entries- arhivar noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
- arhivarka noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Spanish
3 entries- archivera noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
- archivero noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
- archivista noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Swedish
1 entries- arkivarie noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Tagalog
1 entries- tagasinop noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Tajik
1 entries- архивчӣ noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Turkish
1 entries- arşivci noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Ukrainian
1 entries- архіва́ріус noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Upper Sorbian
2 entries- archiwar noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
- archiwarka noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Uzbek
2 entries- arxivarius noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
- arxivchi noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Vietnamese
1 entries- chuyên viên lưu trữ noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Welsh
1 entries- archifydd noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
West-Frisian
1 entries- argivaris noun (one who creates, maintains or controls archives)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
Tom is an archivist.
Source: tatoeba (5045723)
The billionaire’s will established a trust to create a staff of archivists that would chronicle and preserve his rise to prominence.
Source: wiktionary
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