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Antiquity
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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 \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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