Antique

[æn'tiːk] or [æn'tik]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) any piece of furniture or decorative object or the like produced in a former period and valuable because of its beauty or rarity.

(verb.) give an antique appearance to; 'antique furniture'.

(verb.) shop for antiques; 'We went antiquing on Saturday'.

(adj.) out of fashion; 'a suit of rather antique appearance'; 'demode (or outmoded) attire'; 'outmoded ideas' .

(adj.) made in or typical of earlier times and valued for its age; 'the beautiful antique French furniture' .

手打:温迪--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(a.) Old; ancient; of genuine antiquity; as, an antique statue. In this sense it usually refers to the flourishing ages of Greece and Rome.

(a.) Old, as respects the present age, or a modern period of time; of old fashion; antiquated; as, an antique robe.

(a.) Made in imitation of antiquity; as, the antique style of Thomson's "Castle of Indolence."

(a.) Odd; fantastic.

(a.) In general, anything very old; but in a more limited sense, a relic or object of ancient art; collectively, the antique, the remains of ancient art, as busts, statues, paintings, and vases.

校對:韦恩

同義詞及近義詞：

a. Old, ancient, ANTIQUATED.

n. Ancient rarity, piece of ancient art.

錄入:纳丁

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Archaic, ancient, ancestral

ANT:Modern, recent, new-fangled

錄入:雷内

解釋/意思:

adj. ancient: of a good old age olden (now generally rhetorical in a good sense): old-fashioned after the manner of the ancients.—n. anything very old: ancient relics: an American name for a kind of type of thick and bold face in which the lines are of equal thickness—Egyptian in England.—v.t. An′tiquate to make antique old or obsolete: to put out of use:—pr.p. an′tiquāting; pa.p. an′tiquāted.—adj. An′tiquated grown old or out of fashion: obsolete: superannuated.—n. Antiquā′tion the making obsolete: abrogation: obsoleteness.—adv. Antique′ly.—n. Antique′ness.—adj. Antiq′uish somewhat antique.—The Antique ancient work in art the style of ancient art.

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