Antique
[æn'tiːk] or [æn'tik]
Definition
(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' .
Checker: Wendy--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Checker: Wayne
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Old, ancient, ANTIQUATED.
n. Ancient rarity, piece of ancient art.
Typist: Nadine
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Archaic, ancient, ancestral
ANT:Modern, recent, new-fangled
Checker: Rene
Definition
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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Examples
- Young Law cross-questioned an old woman in an antique costume. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- These antique guns were made by welding longitudinal bars of iron together and binding them by iron rings shrunk on while hot. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- In 1834 Henry Bessemer electro-plated lead castings with copper in the production of antique relief heads. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It would not do to conclude this sketch of antique cannon and fire-arms without referring to Puckle's celebrated English patent No. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- We often walk in the Tuileries Gardens, for they are lovely, though the antique Luxembourg Gardens suit me better. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- On each side of the high mantelpiece stood two antique chairs of oak, solid as silvan thrones, and in one of these sat a lady. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- And hanging the antique broad-brim on a bust of Plato, Jo read her letters. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- This was neither a grand nor a comfortable house; within as without it was antique, rambling, and incommodious. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Red porphyry --verde antique--jasper--oriental agate--alabaster--mother-of-pearl --chalcedony--red coral--lapis lazuli! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- That those I loved might in a few days be as clay-cold as Idris in her antique tomb; nor could strength of body or energy of mind ward off the blow. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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