1. antique(n = noun.person) gaffer, old geezer, old-timer, oldtimer - an elderly man;
is a kind of graybeard, greybeard, methuselah, old man
Derived form adjective antique3
2. antique(n = noun.artifact) - any piece of furniture or decorative object or the like produced in a former period and valuable because of its beauty or rarity;
is a kind of antiquity
Derived forms verb antiquate2, verb antique2, verb antique1, adjective antique3, adjective antique1
1. antique(v = verb.possession) - shop for antiques; "We went antiquing on Saturday"
is one way to browse, shop
Derived form noun antique2
Sample sentences:
In the summer they like to go out and antique
2. antique(v = verb.change) antiquate - give an antique appearance to; "antique furniture"
is one way to alter, change, modify
Derived form noun antique2
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
1. antique(s = adj.all) - made in or typical of earlier times and valued for its age; "the beautiful antique French furniture"
Derived forms noun antique2, noun antiquity3
2. antique(s = adj.all) demode, ex, old-fashioned, old-hat, outmoded, passe, passee - out of fashion; "a suit of rather antique appearance"; "demode (or outmoded) attire"; "outmoded ideas"
3. antique(s = adj.all) age-old - belonging to or lasting from times long ago; "age-old customs"; "the antique fear that days would dwindle away to complete darkness"
Derived forms noun antique2, noun antique1, noun antiquity2, noun antiquity1
1. Old; ancient; of genuine antiquity; as, an antique statue. In this sense it usually refers to the flourishing ages of Greece and Rome. [1913 Webster]
"For the antique world excess and pride did hate." [1913 Webster]
2. Old, as respects the present age, or a modern period of time; of old fashion; antiquated; as, an antique robe. Spenser. [1913 Webster]
3. Made in imitation of antiquity; as, the antique style of Thomson's “Castle of Indolence.” [1913 Webster]
4. Odd; fantastic. [1913 Webster]
In general, anything very old; but in a more limited sense, a relic or object of ancient art; collectively, the antique, the remains of ancient art, as busts, statues, paintings, and vases. [1913 Webster]
"Misshapen monuments and maimed antiques." [1913 Webster]
antique, n., adj., & v.
--n. an object of considerable age, esp. an item of furniture or the decorative arts having a high value.
--adj.
1 of or existing from an early date.
2 old-fashioned, archaic.
3 of ancient times.
--v.tr. (antiques, antiqued, antiquing) give an antique appearance to (furniture etc.) by artificial means.
Etymology:
F antique or L antiquus, anticus former, ancient f. ante before
N oldness, age, antiquity, cobwebs of antiquity, maturity, decline, decay, senility, seniority, eldership, primogeniture, archaism, thing of the past, relic of the past, megatherium, Sanskrit, tradition, prescription, custom, immemorial usage, common law, old, ancient, antique, of long standing, time-honored, venerable, elder, eldest, firstborn, prime, primitive, primeval, primigenous, paleolontological, paleontologic, paleoanthropological, paleoanthropic, paleolithic, primordial, primordinate, aboriginal, diluvian, antediluvian, protohistoric, prehistoric, antebellum, colonial, precolumbian, patriarchal, preadamite, paleocrystic, fossil, paleozoolical, paleozoic, preglacial, antemundane, archaic, classic, medieval, Pre-Raphaelite, ancestral, black-letter, immemorial, traditional, prescriptive, customary, whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contr, inveterate, rooted, antiquated, of other times, rococo, of the old school, after-age, obsolete, out of date, out of fashion, out of it, stale, old-fashioned, behind the age, old-world, exploded, gone out, gone by, passe, run out, senile, time worn, crumbling, secondhand, old as the hills, old as Methuselah, old as Adam, old as history, Archeozoic, Proterozoic, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic, Precambrian, Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Mississippian, Pennsylvanian, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, Tertiary, Paleogene, Neocene, Quaternary, Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene, Recent, since the world was made, since the year one, since the days of Methuselah, vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.