antique en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˌɛnˈtiːk/ (New-Zealand)
- (US) audio
- /ˌanˈtik/ (Scotland)
- /ˌænˈtik/ (Canada, General-American)
- /ˌanˈtiːk/ (Received-Pronunciation, contemporary)
- ăn′tēk′
- /ˌænˈtiːk/ conservative Received Pronunciation; Australia
Etymology
Borrowed from French antique (“ancient, old”), from Latin antiquus (“former, earlier, ancient, old”), from ante (“before”); see ante-. Doublet of antic.
Meanings
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Having existed in ancient times, descended from antiquity; used especially in reference to Greece and Rome.
I met a traveller from an antique land
1817 (published 11 January 1818), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Sonnet. Ozymandias.”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume III, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 67:[…] 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, […]
1596, The Raigne of King Edvvard the third: […], London: Cuthbert Burby, unnumbered page: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.
1851, George William Curtis, Nile Notes of a Howadji, New York: Harper & Brothers, page 159: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.
1842, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Essays on the Greek Christian Poets and the English Poets, New York: James Miller, published 1863, page 179: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, / […]
1609, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene, Disposed Into XII. Bookes, Fashioning twelue Morall Vertues, London: Mathew Lownes, book 1, canto 11, verse 27, page 51:
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Belonging to former times, not modern, out of date, old-fashioned.
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.
1957 July 14, M. D. Greville, “A Diamond Jubilee of Railway Memories”, in Railway Magazine, page 459:“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.[…]”
1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Tremarn Case”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020: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.
1865, H. T. Sperry, Country Love vs. City Flirtation; or, Ten Chapters From the Story of a Life, New York: Carleton, page 10: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.
1841 July 3, “Fine Arts”, in The Athenæum: Journal of Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts, number 714, London, page 509, column 3:
- Designating a style of type.
- Embossed without gilt.
- Synonym of old (“of color: subdued, as if faded over time”).
- (obsolete) Synonym of antic, specifically
- (obsolete) Synonym of antic, specifically: ▸ Fantastic, odd, wild, antic.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| antiq. | Abbr=Yes | alternative | lexicographic |
| antiquest | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| anticke | alternative, obsolete | lexicographic | |
| antick | alternative, obsolete | lexicographic | |
| antic | alternative, obsolete | lexicographic | |
| antiquer | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Deriveds
antiquize · late antique · antique shop · antique satin · antique crown · antique store · antiquely · subantique · pseudoantique · antique white · unantique · antique rose · antiquous · antique ruby · nonantique · antiquization · antiquist · antique car · advertique · antiquify · antique brass · antiquification
Relateds
antiquation · verd antique · antiquate · antic · antiquarian · ancient · antiquity · antiquary · Antiqua
Synonyms
outdated · specifically · old · antiquated (out of date) · antic · disused
Translations (50)
hy հին (old; out of date) · hy հինավուրց (old; out of date) · hy անտիկ (old; out of date) · ca antiquat (old; out of date) · ar عَتِيق (old; out of date) · bg стари́нен (old; out of date) · bg анти́чен (old; out of date) · cmn 古代 (old; out of date) · kk ежелгі (old; out of date) · fa کهن (Having existed in ancient times) · kk антикалық (old; out of date) · hu antik (old; out of date) · ru анти́чный (old; out of date) · de antik (old; out of date) · yi אַנטיק (old; out of date) · ja 古い (old; out of date) · fi antiikkinen (old; out of date) · pl antyczny (Having existed in ancient times) · ca antic (old; out of date) · my ရှေးဟောင်း (old; out of date) · fr antique (old; out of date) · fa باستانی (Having existed in ancient times) · id antik (old; out of date) · no antikvarisk (old; out of date) · ru дре́вний (old; out of date) · ar قَدِيم (old; out of date) · fr ancien (old; out of date) · cmn 古老 (old; out of date) · pl antyczny (old; out of date) · it antico (old; out of date) · kk антиктік (old; out of date) · pt antiquado (old; out of date) · ka ძველებური (old; out of date) · ru стари́нный (old; out of date) · ja アンティークの (old; out of date) · sh àntičkī (old; out of date) · fa کهنه (old; out of date) · it obsoleto (old; out of date) · tr antika (old; out of date) · ru антиква́рный (old; out of date) · io antiqua (old; out of date) · eo antikva (old; out of date) · nl antiek (old; out of date) · da antikvarisk (old; out of date) · sh а̀нтичкӣ (old; out of date) · es antiguo (old; out of date) · ka ანტიკვარული (old; out of date) · hy վաղեմի (old; out of date) · pt antigo (old; out of date) · ja 骨董の (old; out of date)