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archaisms

archaisms is the plural of archaism.

Meaning of archaism

Noun

archaism (countable and uncountable, plural archaisms)

  1. The adoption or imitation of archaic words or style.
  2. An archaic word, style, etc.
    • In this text, the word "methinks" appears to be a deliberate archaism.

Questions about archaisms

What is archaisms the plural of?
Archaisms is the plural of archaism.

Words near archaisms in the dictionary

  1. archaiser
  2. archaisers
  3. archaises
  4. archaising
  5. archaism
  6. archaisms
  7. archaist
  8. archaistic
  9. archaistically
  10. archaists
  11. archaization

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Adapted from Wiktionary: archaisms (page history and authors); archaism (page history and authors). 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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