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Antiquity

Antiquity Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Antiquity? [n] an artifact surviving from the past [n] extreme oldness [n] the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe Synonyms \| Synonyms for Antiquity: ancientness Related Terms \| Find terms related to Antiquity: abidingness \| aboriginality \| age \| ancien regime \| ancient history \| ancient manuscript \| ancient times \| ancientness \| antique \| archaism \| artifact \| atavism \| cave painting \| cobwebs of antiquity \| constancy \| continuance \| defeat of time \| defiance of time \| distance of time \| distant past \| diuturnity \| durability \| durableness \| duration \| dust of ages \| eld \| elderliness \| eldership \| endurance \| eolith \| fossil \| great age \| hoary age \| hoary eld \| inveteracy \| lastingness \| long standing \| longevity \| long-lastingness \| long-livedness \| maintenance \| mezzolith \| microlith \| neolith \| old age \| old order \| old style \| oldness \| paleolith \| perdurability \| perennation \| permanence \| perpetuity \| persistence \| petrification \| petrified forest \| petrified wood \| petroglyph \| plateaulith \| primitiveness \| primogeniture \| primordialism \| primordiality \| relic \| reliquiae \| remains \| remote age \| ruin \| ruins \| senility \| seniority \| stability \| standing \| steadfastness \| survival \| survivance \| time immemorial \| venerableness \| vestige See Also \| antique \| artefact \| artifact \| historic period \| history \| oldness \| relic \| Roman building \| stela \| stele Antiquity In Webster's Dictionary \Antiq"uity\, n.; pl. {Antiquities}. [L. antiquitas, fr. antiquus: cf. F. antiquit['e]. See {Antique}.] 1. The quality of being ancient; ancientness; great age; as, a statue of remarkable antiquity; a family of great antiquity. 2. Old age. [Obs.] It not your voice broken? . . . and every part about you blasted with antiquity? --Shak. 3. Ancient times; former ages; times long since past; as, Cicero was an eloquent orator of antiquity. 4. The ancients; the people of ancient times. That such pillars were raised by Seth all antiquity has ?vowed. --Sir W. Raleigh. 5. An old gentleman. [Obs.] You are a shrewd antiquity, neighbor Clench. --B. Jonson. 6. A relic or monument of ancient times; as, a coin, a statue, etc.; an ancient institution. Note: [In this sense, usually in the plural.] ``Heathen antiquities.'' --Bacon.

Antiquity Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Antiquity?

[n] an artifact surviving from the past
[n] extreme oldness
[n] the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe

Synonyms | Synonyms for Antiquity: ancientness

Antiquity In Webster's Dictionary

\An*tiq"ui*ty\, n.; pl. {Antiquities}. [L. antiquitas,
fr. antiquus: cf. F. antiquit['e]. See {Antique}.]
1. The quality of being ancient; ancientness; great age; as,
   a statue of remarkable antiquity; a family of great
   antiquity.

2. Old age. [Obs.]

         It not your voice broken? . . . and every part about
         you blasted with antiquity?           --Shak.

3. Ancient times; former ages; times long since past; as,
   Cicero was an eloquent orator of antiquity.

4. The ancients; the people of ancient times.

         That such pillars were raised by Seth all antiquity
         has ?vowed.                           --Sir W.
                                               Raleigh.

5. An old gentleman. [Obs.]

         You are a shrewd antiquity, neighbor Clench. --B.
                                               Jonson.

6. A relic or monument of ancient times; as, a coin, a
   statue, etc.; an ancient institution.

Note: [In this sense, usually in the plural.] ``Heathen
      antiquities.'' --Bacon.

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