antique
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
bookbinding
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
media
publishing
typography
Etymology: Borrowed from French antique (“ancient, old”), from Latin antiquus (“former, earlier, ancient, old”), from ante (“before”); see ante-. Doublet of antic.
Inflected forms:
form: antiquer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: antiquest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: antic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: antick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: anticke
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: antiq.
pos: adj
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: antiques
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: antic
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: antick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: anticke
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: antiq.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: antiques
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: antiquing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: antiqued
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: antiqued
pos: verb
tags: past
form: antic
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
form: antick
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: anticke
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: antiq.
pos: verb
tags: alternative
abbreviation
Senses:
gloss: Having existed in ancient times, descended from antiquity; used especially in reference to Greece and Rome.
pos: adj
examples: […] Phillip the younger issue of the king, / Coting the other hill in such arraie, / That all his guilded vpright pikes do seeme, / Streight trees of gold, the pendant leaues, / And their deuice of Antique heraldry, / Quartred in collours seeming sundy fruits, / Makes it the Orchard of the Hesperides, […]
Not that great Champion of the antique world, / Whom famous Poets verse so much doth daunt, / And hath for twelue huge labours high extold, / So many furies and sharp fits did haunt, / […]
I met a traveller from an antique land
From the rest they stand out contrastingly, as the Apollo of the later Greek sculpture-school,—too graceful for divinity and too vivacious for marble,—placed in a company of the antiquer statues with their grand blind look of the almightiness of repose.
Believe an impartial Howadji who has no Cangie or other boats to let at Mahratta, that Nubia is a very different land from Egypt, and that you have not penetrated antiquest Egypt, until you have been awe-stricken by the silence which was buried ages ago in Aboo Simbel, and by the hand-folded Osiride figures, that people, like dumb and dead Gods, that dim, demonic hall.
gloss: Belonging to former times, not modern, out of date, old-fashioned.
pos: adj
examples: Some traditions of this antiquer system may have passed into Van Eyck's method, from distemper into oil, and thence downwards, gradually more vague, into the modern process, till they at length disappeared altogether about Rubens's time.
A lonesome traveler might have been seen, / On the turnpike road near the village green, / In a grotesque suit of ultra-marine / And a hat broad-brimmed and conical, / Awkwardly perched in a family cart— / The very antiquest kind / Of an umbrella arching o'er him, / A long black trunk behind / And a short white pony before him, / That ambles on with a jerk and a start, / As though it were taking an active part / In a piece of German machinery.
“There the cause of death was soon ascertained ; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto, which […] was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom.[…]”
Lastly, I must mention the "Underground," to travel on which was, in those days, an experience to be remembered. There were the antique looking engines, and the rather grim carriages, with the fascinating indicators in the compartments to show (not always correctly!) the next station, and above all, there was the atmosphere.
gloss: Designating a style of type.
pos: adj
gloss: Embossed without gilt.
pos: adj
gloss: Synonym of old (“of color: subdued, as if faded over time”).
pos: adj
gloss: Synonym of antic, specifically
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
gloss: Synonym of antic, specifically:
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
gloss: In general, anything very old; specifically:
pos: noun
gloss: In general, anything very old; specifically:
pos: noun
gloss: In general, anything very old; specifically:
pos: noun
tags: singular
gloss: In general, anything very old; specifically:
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
figuratively
mildly
gloss: In general, anything very old; specifically:
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: They supposed that they had seene those most beutyfull Dryades, or the natyue nymphes or fayres of the fountaynes whereof the antiques spake so muche.
Wee eas'ly limme, some louely-Virgin face, / And can to life, a Lantscip represent, / Afford to Antiques, each his proper grace, / Or trick out this, or that compartement : / […]
gloss: A style of type of thick and bold face in which all lines are of equal or nearly equal thickness.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of antic, specifically:
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: […] I do implore secretie, that the King would haue me present the Princesse (sweete chuck) with some delightfull ostentation, or show, or pageant, or antique, or fierworke : […]
gloss: Synonym of antic, specifically:
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: To search or shop for antiques.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Once our daughter-in-love, Janis, went antiquing with us because she and our firstborn, Matthew, were in the market for some bedroom furniture.
gloss: To make (an object) appear to be an antique in some way.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To emboss without gilding.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: disused
outdated
geriatric
oldster
Related words: ancient
antic
Antiqua
antiquarian
antiquary
antiquate
antiquation
antiquity
verd antique
Derived words: advertique
antique brass
antique car
antique crown
antiquely
antique rose
antique ruby
antique satin
antique shop
antique store
antique white
antiquification
antiquify
antiquist
antiquization
antiquize
antiquous
late antique
pseudoantique
subantique
unantique
nonantique
antiquarium
antiquedom
antiquehood
antiqueness
antiquey
mantique
modern antique
antiquer
Translations:
lang: Belarusian
word: антыкварыя́т
roman: antykvaryját
lang: Bulgarian
word: анти́ка
roman: antíka
lang: Bulgarian
word: стари́нен предме́т
roman: starínen predmét
lang: Burmese
word: ရှေးဟောင်းပစ္စည်း
roman: hre:haung:paccany:
lang: Catalan
word: antiguitat
lang: Catalan
word: antigalla
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 古董
roman: gǔdǒng
lang: Czech
word: starožitnost
lang: Czech
word: antikvity
lang: Esperanto
word: antikvaĵo
lang: Finnish
word: antiikkiesine
lang: Finnish
word: antikviteetti
lang: Finnish
word: antiikki
lang: French
word: antique
lang: German
word: Antiquität
lang: Greek
word: αντίκα
roman: antíka
lang: Hungarian
word: régiség
lang: Hungarian
word: antikvitás
lang: Japanese
word: 骨董品
roman: kottōhin
lang: Japanese
word: 骨董
roman: kottō
lang: Jingpho
word: lak hawng
lang: Korean
word: 골동품
roman: goldongpum
lang: Korean
word: 골동
roman: goldong
lang: Macedonian
word: старина
roman: starina
lang: Macedonian
word: антиквите́т
roman: antikvitét
lang: Macedonian
word: антика
roman: antika
lang: Mongolian
word: эртний эдлэл
roman: ertnii edlel
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: antikvitet
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: antikvitet
lang: Persian
word: آنتیک
roman: ântik
lang: Persian
word: عتیقه
roman: 'atiqe
lang: Polish
word: antyk
lang: Portuguese
word: antiguidade
lang: Russian
word: антиквариа́т
roman: antikvariát
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: антиквѝте̄т
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: antikvìtēt
lang: Slovak
word: starožitnosť
lang: Slovak
word: antikvita
lang: Spanish
word: antigüedad
lang: Swedish
word: antikvitet
lang: Turkish
word: antika
lang: Ukrainian
word: антикваріа́т
roman: antykvariát
lang: Yiddish
word: אַנטיק
roman: antik