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Antique

Antique Meaning & Definition
Antique Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Antique?

[n] any piece of furniture or decorative object or the like produced in a former period and valuable because of its beauty or rarity
[n] an elderly man
[adj] out of fashion; "a suit of rather antique appearance"; "demode (or outmoded) attire"; "outmoded ideas"
[adj] belonging to or lasting from times long ago; "age-old customs"; "the antique fear that days would dwindle away to complete darkness"
[adj] made in or typical of earlier times and valued for its age; "the beautiful antique French furniture"
[v] give an antique appearance to; "antique furniture"
[v] shop for antiques; "We went antiquing on Saturday"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Antique: age-old | antiquate | demode | gaffer | mossback | old | old geezer | old-fashioned | old-hat(p) | oldtimer | old-timer | out of fashion | outmoded | passe | passee | unfashionable | unstylish

Related Terms | Find terms related to Antique: abandoned | abiding | abjured | aged | ageless | age-long | age-old | ago | ancestral | ancient | ancient manuscript | antediluvian | antiquated | antiquity | archaic | archaism | artifact | auld | back number | bibelot | blown over | by | bygone | bypast | cave painting | chronic | classical | collectable | conservative | constant | continuing | curio | dad | dated | dateless | dead | dead and buried | deceased | defunct | departed | deserted | discontinued | disused | diuturnal | dodo | done with | durable | elapsed | elder | elderly | enduring | eolith | evergreen | expired | extinct | finished | fogy | forgotten | fossil | fossilized | fud | fuddy-duddy | gone | gone glimmering | gone-by | Gothic | granny | grown old | hardy | has-been | heirloom | hoary | immemorial | immutable | intransient | inveterate | irrecoverable | lapsed | lasting | legendary | longeval | longevous | longhair | long-lasting | long-lived | long-standing | long-term | macrobiotic | matriarch | medieval | Methuselah | mezzolith | microlith | mid-Victorian | mossback | neolith | no more | not worth saving | objet d'art | obsolescent | obsolete | of long duration | of long standing | of old | of other times | of yore | old | old as history | old as Methuselah | old as time | old believer | old crock | old dodo | old fogy | old liner | old man | old poop | old woman | olden | oldfangled | old-fashioned | old-time | old-timer | old-timey | old-world | on the shelf | out | out of date | out of use | outdated | outmoded | out-of-date | outworn | over | paleolith | passe | passed | passed away | past | past use | patriarch | pensioned off | perdurable | perduring | perennial | permanent | perpetual | persistent | persisting | petrification | petrified | petrified forest | petrified wood | petroglyph | plateaulith | pop | pops | rarity | reactionary | regular old fogy | relic | relinquished | reliquiae | remaining | remains | renounced | resigned | retired | ruin | ruins | run out | sempervirent | square | stable | starets | staying | steadfast | superannuate | superannuated | superseded | survival | timeless | timeworn | tough | traditional | traditionalist | unfading | vanished | venerable | vestige | Victorian | vital | worn-out | wound up

See Also | alter | antiquity | browse | change | graybeard | greybeard | Methuselah | old man | shop

Antique In Webster's Dictionary

\An*tique"\, a. [F., fr. L. antiquus old, ancient, equiv. to anticus, from ante before. Cf. {Antic}.] 1. Old; ancient; of genuine antiquity; as, an antique statue. In this sense it usually refers to the flourishing ages of Greece and Rome. For the antique world excess and pride did hate. --Spenser. 2. Old, as respects the present age, or a modern period of time; of old fashion; antiquated; as, an antique robe. ``Antique words.'' --Spenser. 3. Made in imitation of antiquity; as, the antique style of Thomson's ``Castle of Indolence.'' 4. Odd; fantastic. [In this sense, written {antic}.] Syn: Ancient; antiquated; obsolete; antic; old-fashioned; old. See {Ancient}.
\An*tique"\, n. [F. See {Antique}, 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. Misshapen monuments and maimed antiques. --Byron.

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