Antiquity
[æn'tɪkwɪtɪ] or [æn'tɪkwəti]
Definition
(noun.) an artifact surviving from the past.
(noun.) the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe.
Editor: Stephen--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The quality of being ancient; ancientness; great age; as, a statue of remarkable antiquity; a family of great antiquity.
(n.) Old age.
(n.) Ancient times; former ages; times long since past; as, Cicero was an eloquent orator of antiquity.
(n.) The ancients; the people of ancient times.
(n.) An old gentleman.
(n.) A relic or monument of ancient times; as, a coin, a statue, etc.; an ancient institution. [In this sense, usually in the plural.]
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Old times, the olden time, ancient times, days of yore, AULD LANG SYNE.[2]. Ancients, people of old times.[3]. Ancientness, great age.[4]. [pl.] Relics of old times.
Editor: Tamara
Definition
n. ancient times esp. the times of the ancient Greeks and Romans: great age: (Shak.) old age seniority: ancient style: the people of old time: (pl.) manners customs relics of ancient times.—n. Antiquitār′ian one attached to the practices and opinions of antiquity.
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Examples
- Can we suppose that he is ignorant of antiquity, and therefore has recourse to invention? Plato. The Republic.
- Many treatises in different languages have been published on pigeons, and some of them are very important, as being of considerable antiquity. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- They have bee n recognized as fundamental from antiquity. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Sounding Mr. Cruncher, and finding him of her opinion, Miss Pross resorted to the Good Republican Brutus of Antiquity, attended by her cavalier. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Far back in the obscuring gloom of a prehistoric antiquity, man wore probably only the hirsute covering which nature gave him. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Clerval did not like it so well as Oxford; for the antiquity of the latter city was more pleasing to him. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- The early history of Damascus is shrouded in the mists of a hoary antiquity. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- For they are not ignorant of antiquity like the poets, nor are they afraid of their enemies, nor is any madman a friend of theirs. Plato. The Republic.
- Both these great nations of antiquity, ho wever, failed to carry the sciences that arose in connection with their arts to a high degree of generalization. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- So far as we at present know there were four forms of time-measuring instruments known to antiquity--the sun-dial, the clepsydra or water clock, the hour-glass, and the graduated candle. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Antiquity brooded above this region, business was banished thence. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The therns, and he smiled maliciously as he spoke, are but the result of ages of evolution from the pure white ape of antiquity. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The origin of billiards is lost in antiquity. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It was to console himself for all this antiquity, I suppose, that he fixed upon so very young a mistress as myself. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- He lived in the third century B.C,and has been called the greatest mathematician of antiquity. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Everything seemed dreary: the portents before the birth of Cyrus--Jewish antiquities--oh dear! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The gentleman was an enthusiastic collector of Oriental antiquities, and had been for many years a liberal patron of the establishment in Lambeth. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- It is the same with silks, antiquities, shawls, etc. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- But I thought that it might be the effect of the antiquities of Oxford. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- On the 8th of December of that year, my companion and I crossed the Bay, to visit the antiquities which are scattered on the shores of Baiae. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- In the morning we rode in the adjoining country, or wandered through the palaces, in search of pictures or antiquities. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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