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antique

[ an-teek ]

adjective

  1. of or belonging to the past; not modern.

    Synonyms: archaic, bygone

  2. dating from a period long ago:

    antique furniture.

    Synonyms: obsolescent, obsolete, old

  3. noting or pertaining to automobiles approximately 25 years old or more.
  4. in the tradition, fashion, or style of an earlier period; old-fashioned; antiquated.
  5. of or belonging to the ancient Greeks and Romans.
  6. (of paper) neither calendered nor coated and having a rough surface.


noun

  1. any work of art, piece of furniture, decorative object, or the like, created or produced in a former period, or, according to U.S. customs laws, 100 years before date of purchase.
  2. the antique style, usually Greek or Roman, especially in art.
  3. Printing. a style of type.

verb (used with object)

, an·tiqued, an·ti·quing.
  1. to make or finish (something, especially furniture) in imitation of antiques.
  2. to emboss (an image, design, letters, or the like) on paper or fabric.

verb (used without object)

, an·tiqued, an·ti·quing.
  1. to shop for or collect antiques:

    She spent her vacation antiquing in Boston.

antique

/ ænˈtiːk /

noun

    1. a decorative object, piece of furniture, or other work of art created in an earlier period, that is collected and valued for its beauty, workmanship, and age
    2. ( as modifier )

      an antique shop

  1. any object made in an earlier period
  2. the antique
    the style of ancient art, esp Greek or Roman art, or an example of it
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


adjective

  1. made in or in the style of an earlier period
  2. of or belonging to the distant past, esp of or in the style of ancient Greece or Rome
  3. informal.
    old-fashioned; out-of-date
  4. archaic.
    aged or venerable
  5. (of paper) not calendered or coated; having a rough surface
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. tr to give an antique appearance to
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Words From

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  • an·tiqueness noun
  • pseudo·an·tique adjective noun
  • quasi-an·tique adjective
  • suban·tique adjective
  • suban·tiquely adverb
  • suban·tiqueness noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of antique1

1520–30; earlier also anticke (< Middle French antique ) < Latin antīiquus, antīicus in front, existing earler, ancient; antic, posticum
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Word History and Origins

Origin of antique1

C16: from Latin antīquus ancient, from ante before
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Example Sentences

Cummings, a retired antique store owner, moved from Newton and found ideological kinship just across the county line, in rural and ever-redder Jasper.

In this line of thinking, it’s okay to chuckle when Borat destroys an antique shop’s goods in the first film because the owner has some Confederate paraphernalia.

Chuck and Lucius brought a Victorian hamper filled with fine china plates, Austrian crystal, silver, and antique damask napkins.

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Although the cabin is off the grid, you can plug in at the main house, and there’s warm water for showers and the antique bathtub on the porch.

The metal is finished in an antique bronze color, and comes fully assembled.

The library in Williamsburg itself is illuminated with antique filament bulbs and everything inside is of the past or a nod to it.

Fully when I got that call I was at an antique mall with my mom.

She was in a Chicago antique mall with her mom when she found out she got the audition.

For $4, he bought an antique picture frame and everything it contained.

We need to talk about economic fairness, even justice—an antique-sounding but still important word—not economic diversity.

It was an antique, half-Gothic, half-Saracenic looking edifice, which they now approached.

It is architecturally more pleasing and its windows are among the finest examples of antique stained glass in the Kingdom.

Pictures, tapestry, antique articles of furniture which had been in the house for centuries still remained.

On the front of the house was an ancient sun-dial, and across it, in antique letters, the legend "Time will show."

The germs of a new life, says Dr. Lbke, were in embryo in the dying antique world.

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