antique

Adjective

antique (comparative antiquer, superlative antiquest)

1. 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...1596, The Raigne of King Edvvard the third: […], London: Cuthbert Burby, unnumbered page
   • 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
2. Belonging to former times, not modern, out of date, old-fashioned.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.1841 July 3, “Fine Arts”, in The Athenæum: Journal of Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts, number 714, London, page 509, column 3
   • 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...1865, H. T. Sperry, Country Love vs. City Flirtation; or, Ten Chapters From the Story of a Life, New York: Carleton, page 10

   Synonyms:

   antiquated

3. Designating a style of type.
4. Embossed without gilt.
5. Synonym of old (“of color: subdued, as if faded over time”).

   Synonyms:

   old

6. (obsolete) Synonym of antic, specifically

   Synonyms:

   antic, specifically

7. (obsolete) Fantastic, odd, wild, antic.

Noun

antique (plural antiques)

1. An old object perceived as having value because of its aesthetic or historical significance.
2. An object of ancient times.
3. (singular) The style or manner of ancient times, used especially of Greek and Roman art.
4. (derogatory, figuratively, mildly) An old person.

   Synonyms:

   coffin dodger

5. (obsolete) A man of ancient times.
   • 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.1577, Richarde Eden, Richarde Willes, The History of Trauayle in the VVest and East Indies, and other countreys lying eyther way, towardes the fruitfull and ryche Moluccaes: […], London: Richarde...
   • 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 : / […][1612], Henry Peacham, Minerva Britanna or a Garden of Heroical Deuises, furnished, and adorned with Emblemes and Impres'as of sundry natures, London, page 114

   Synonyms:

   ancient

6. A style of type of thick and bold face in which all lines are of equal or nearly equal thickness.
7. (obsolete) Grotesque entertainment; an antic.
   • […] 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 : […]c. 1595–1596 (date written), W. Shakespere [i.e., William Shakespeare], A Pleasant Conceited Comedie Called, Loues Labors Lost. […] (First Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for Cut[h]bert Burby...
8. (obsolete) A performer in an antic; or in general, a burlesque performer, a buffoon.

Verb

antique (third-person singular simple present antiques, present participle antiquing, simple past and past participle antiqued)

1. (intransitive) 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.1999, Ron McAdoo, Caryl McAdoo, Antiquing in North Texas, page 103
   • Another way to get your wish granted is to find a lamp with a genie in it. And I don't know if genies only exist in fairy tales, but I've been going antiquing with my mom on weekends in case they're actually real.2025, Jeff Kinney, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper, page 21
2. (transitive) To make (an object) appear to be an antique in some way.
3. (transitive) To emboss without gilding.

Proper noun capitalized: Antique

Philippines/ʔɐnˈti.kɛ/

Antique

1. A province of Western Visayas, Visayas, Philippines. Capital: San Jose de Buenavista.