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classical clas·si·cal

Spelling: [klas-i-kuh l]

IPA: /ˈklæs ɪ kəl/

Classical is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 168 anagrams from letters in classical (aaccillss).

Definitions for classical

noun

1. classical music:

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of Greek and Roman antiquity:
2. conforming to ancient Greek and Roman models in literature or art, or to later systems modeled upon them.
3. marked by classicism:
4. Music. of, relating to, or constituting the formally and artistically more sophisticated and enduring types of music, as distinguished from popular and folk music and jazz. Classical music includes symphonies, operas, sonatas, song cycles, and lieder. of, pertaining to, characterized by, or adhering to the well-ordered, chiefly homophonic musical style of the latter half of the 18th and the early 19th centuries:
5. Architecture. noting or pertaining to the architecture of ancient Greece and Rome, especially the religious and public architecture, characterized by the employment of orders. Compare order (def 27b). noting or pertaining to any of several styles of architecture closely imitating the architecture of ancient Greece or Rome; neoclassic. noting or pertaining to architectural details or motifs adapted from ancient Greek or Roman models. (of an architectural design) simple, reposeful, well-proportioned, or symmetrical in a manner suggesting the architecture of ancient Greece and Rome.
6. (often initial capital letter) pertaining to or designating the style of fine arts, especially painting and sculpture, developed in Greece during the 5th and 4th centuries b.c., chiefly characterized by balanced composition, the separation of figures from an architectural background, and the naturalistic rendering of anatomical details, spatial movement, and distribution of weight in a figure. Compare archaic (def 4), Hellenistic (def 5).
7. of or relating to a style of literature and art characterized by conformity to established treatments, taste, or critical standards, and by attention to form with the general effect of regularity, simplicity, balance, proportion, and controlled emotion (contrasted with romantic).
8. pertaining to or versed in the ancient classics:
9. relating to or teaching academic branches of knowledge, as the humanities, general sciences, etc., as distinguished from technical subjects.
10. (of a given field of knowledge) accepted as standard and authoritative, as distinguished from novel or experimental:
11. classic (defs 1–5, 8, 10).
12. Ecclesiastical. pertaining to a classis.

Origin of classical

First recorded in 1580-90; classic + -al¹

Examples for classical

Since filming the show, however, her relationship with classical music has obviously changed.

Pray let me advise you never more to meddle with a classical myth.

Stephanie Giorgio, a classical musician, credits The Class for helping her cope with anxiety, focus, fear, and self-doubt.

So she was an aficionado of classical music, for soundtracks or otherwise?

Rafael painted dirty episodes from classical mythology in a bathroom at the Vatican Palace (sadly these are lost).

In short, I am, as to classical education, another Shakespear.

But the classical model upon which Comus was formed has not yet been discovered.

For Kirke it was being paid to pretend to play the oboe that heightened her affair with classical music.

Maria Novella, while it spoils the classical ornaments of the mouldings.

Even in Boston, mellowed though it was by culture, the classical was at a discount.