Definitions for antique

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antique an·tique

Spelling: [an-teek]

IPA: /ænˈtik/

Antique is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 139 anagrams from letters in antique (aeinqtu).

Definitions for antique

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.

adjective

1. of or belonging to the past; not modern.
2. dating from a period long ago:
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.
7. ancient1 .

verb (used with object)

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)

1. to shop for or collect antiques:

Origin of antique

1520-30; earlier also anticke (Middle French antique) Latin antīiquus, antīicus in front, existing earler, ancient; cf. antic, posticum

Examples for antique

They are what modern life has contributed to the antique ideal of friendship.

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

As Raphael is supposed to have said, all that was lacking to him was knowledge of the antique.

Here, indeed, is an up-to-date hermit, not an antique troglodyte.

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.

Dusty books, smoking pipes, tarot cards, and a Ouija board fill the antique furniture positioning any object as a clue.

And for art-lovers, what perennial beauty of an antique art is here.

So far she had only been set to do landscape, and laborious drawings of casts from the antique.

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