antique
adjective
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L29796 on Wikidata ↗noun
- old collectable item
verb
- shop specifically for antiques
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˌanˈtiːk/ / /ˌænˈtik/ / /ˌænˈtiːk/ / /ʔɐnˈti.kɛ/
adj
Etymology: Borrowed from French antique (“ancient, old”), from Latin antiquus (“former, earlier, ancient, old”), from ante (“before”); see ante-. Doublet of antic.
- Having existed in ancient times, descended from antiquity; used especially in reference to Greece and Rome.
“[…] 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, / […]”
- Belonging to former times, not modern, out of date, old-fashioned.
“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.”
- Designating a style of type.
- Embossed without gilt.
- Synonym of old (“of color: subdued, as if faded over time”).
- Synonym of antic, specifically
- Synonym of antic, specifically:
name
Etymology: From Spanish Antique, from Hiligaynon hantik.
- A province of Western Visayas, Visayas, Philippines. Capital: San Jose de Buenavista.
noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French antique (“ancient, old”), from Latin antiquus (“former, earlier, ancient, old”), from ante (“before”); see ante-. Doublet of antic.
- In general, anything very old; specifically:
- In general, anything very old; specifically:
- In general, anything very old; specifically:
- In general, anything very old; specifically:
- In general, anything very old; specifically:
“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 : / […]”
- A style of type of thick and bold face in which all lines are of equal or nearly equal thickness.
- Synonym of antic, specifically:
“[…] 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 : […]”
- Synonym of antic, specifically:
verb
Etymology: Borrowed from French antique (“ancient, old”), from Latin antiquus (“former, earlier, ancient, old”), from ante (“before”); see ante-. Doublet of antic.
- To search or shop for antiques.
“Once our daughter-in-love, Janis, went antiquing with us because she and our firstborn, Matthew, were in the market for some bedroom furniture.”
- To make (an object) appear to be an antique in some way.
- To emboss without gilding.