Antique

Quick meaning: Antique is an adjective meaning Having existed in ancient times, descended from antiquity; used especially in reference to Greece and Rome.

Meaning

Having existed in ancient times, descended from antiquity; used especially in reference to Greece and Rome.

More Meanings

1. Belonging to former times, not modern, out of date, old-fashioned.
2. (typography) Designating a style of type.
3. (bookbinding) Embossed without gilt.
4. Synonym of old (“of color: subdued, as if faded over time”).
5. In general, anything very old; specifically:
6. (typography) A style of type of thick and bold face in which all lines are of equal or nearly equal thickness.
7. (obsolete) Synonym of antic, specifically:

Example Sentences

I met a traveller from an antique land

Not that great Champion of the antique world, / Whom famous Poets verse so much doth daunt, / And hath for twelue huge labours high extold, / So many furies and sharp fits did haunt, / […]

Some traditions of this antiquer system may have passed into Van Eyck's method, from distemper into oil, and thence downwards, gradually more vague, into the modern process, till they at length disappeared altogether about Rubens's time.

From the rest they stand out contrastingly, as the Apollo of the later Greek sculpture-school,—too graceful for divinity and too vivacious for marble,—placed in a company of the antiquer statues with their grand blind look of the almightiness of repose.

Word Forms

• antiquer
• antiquest
• antic
• antick
• anticke
• antiques
• antiquing
• antiqued

Synonyms for antique

Depending on context, synonyms include antiquated, disused, outdated, geriatric, oldster, ancient.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ancient, age-old, antiquate, old-fashioned, old, outmoded.

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