antiquity
UK/ænˈtɪk.wɪ.ti//ænˈtɪk.wə.ti/
antiquity noun: ancient times; faraway history; former ages.
Noun
antiquity (countable and uncountable, plural antiquities)
- Ancient times; faraway history; former ages.
- Cicero was an eloquent orator of antiquity.
- The people of ancient times.
- That such pillars were raised by Seth all antiquity has avowed.1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5)
- An old gentleman.
- You are a shrewd antiquity, neighbor Clench.1633 (first performance), Ben Jonson, “A Tale of a Tub. A Comedy […]”, in The Works of Beniamin Jonson, […] (Third Folio), London: […] Thomas Hodgkin, for H[enry] Herringman, E. Brewster, T. Bassett...
- The historical period preceding the Middle Ages (c. 500-1500), primarily relating to European history.
- A relic or monument of ancient times, such as a coin, a statue, etc.; an ancient institution.
- New video released by ISIS shows militants smashing what they say are antiquities at a museum in Mosul, Iraq.2015 February 26, Ben Wedeman, Dana Ford, “Video shows ISIS militants destroying antiquities in Iraq”, in CNN, archived from the original on 01 Feb 2023
- The state of being ancient or of ancient lineage.
- He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
Proper noun capitalized: Antiquity
Antiquity
- The period of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome.
- Synonyms:
- classical antiquity
antiquity meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
antiquity in Hindi
- प्राचीनता, पुरातनता
antiquity in Tamil
- antiquity, oldness, ancientness
- பழமை paḻamai
- antiquity, old times, former times
- தொண்டு toṇṭu
- antiquity, olden times
- நீண்மை nīṇmai
- antiquity, ancientness
- தொல்லை tollai
antiquity in Marathi
- पुरातनता
antiquity in Urdu
- antiquity, ancientness, preceding
- قدم qidam
- antiquity, oldness, ancientness
- قدم qidam
More languagesFewer languages
- antiquity in Malayalam
- പുരാതനകാലം, പൗരാണികകാലം, പ്രാചീനകാലം, നട
- antiquity in Kannada
- ಪಳಮೆ, ಹಳಮೆ, ಪ್ರಾಚೀನತೆ, ಪುರಾತನತ್ವ
- antiquity in Punjabi
- ਪੁਰਾਤਨਤਾ
- antiquity in Arabic
- تَارِيخ قَدِيم tārīḵ qadīm
- antiquity in Malay
- zaman purba, era kuno
- antiquity in Indonesian
- antikuitas
Examples of antiquity in a sentence
- Virtually all modern scholars of antiquity agree that Jesus existed historically.
- Our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity.
- In Korea, a huge Buddhist bell of even greater antiquity still exists.
Synonyms of antiquity
Forms of antiquity
| plural | antiquities |
|---|---|
| alternative form (obsolete) | antiquitie |
Origin of antiquity
From Middle English antiquyte, antiquite, antiquytee, a borrowing from Old French antiquité, antiquitet, from Latin antiquitas, from antiquus. Equivalent to antique + -ity. See antique, antic. Compare with French antiquité.
Words formed from antiquity
Words that rhyme with antiquity
Questions about antiquity
- What does antiquity mean?
- Antiquity means ancient times; faraway history; former ages.
- What is antiquity in Hindi?
- Antiquity in Hindi is प्राचीनता, पुरातनता. See Antiquity meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is antiquity?
- Antiquity can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce antiquity?
- Antiquity is pronounced /ænˈtɪk.wɪ.ti/ (UK).
- What is the plural of antiquity?
- The plural of antiquity is antiquities.
Words near antiquity in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: antiquity (page history and authors); Antiquity (page history and authors); antiquity (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ஆதி (Tamil) (page history and authors); antiquity (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); قدم (Urdu) (page history and authors); antiquity (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); antiquity (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); antiquity (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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