archiver

noun

ar·​chiv·​er ˈär-ˌkī-vər 

plural archivers

1

: a person who creates or maintains an archive : archivist

Few architects' names resonate across the centuries with the force of the 16th-century Italian Andrea Palladio, the great Renaissance archiver of the classical orders and the inventor of the modern villa.

—Andrew Ferren, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2009

2

: something (such as a computer program) that is used to create archives

An archiver that doesn't support searching—on the bodies of messages, as well as on authors and subjects—is close to useless.

—Karl Fogel, Producing Open Source Software, 2006

Word History

Etymology

archive entry 2 + -er entry 2

First Known Use

1843, in the meaning defined above

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