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late antique

late antique adjective: used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see late, antique.

Adjective (1)

late antique (comparative more late antique, superlative most late antique)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see late, antique.
  2. Of or pertaining to Late Antiquity (period of history).
    • Late antique houses in Cyprus Have been studied by P. Hadjichritopi.[…]Recently, in 2004, M. Rautman has given an overview of living in the late antique Cypriote countryside.2007, Inge Uytterhoeven, “Housing in Late Antiquity: Regional Perspectives”, in Luke Lavan, Lale Özgenel, Alexander Sarantis, editors, Housing in Late Antiquity: From Palaces to Shops, BRILL, page 85
    • Another grand house with shield portraits and busts of philosophers, dating from the Late Antique period, has been discovered at Aphrodisias in Caria.[…]Fifteen Late Antique mosaic panels, which probably came from Syria and are dated to the late fourth or early fifth centuries, have recently been...2007, Raffaella Cribiore, The School of Libanius in Late Antique Antioch, Princeton University Press, page 46

Adjective (2) capitalized: Late Antique

Late Antique (comparative more Late Antique, superlative most Late Antique)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of late antique.

Examples of late antique in a sentence

  • The macro-scale distribution of goods across the classical and Late Antique worlds was produced by a web of small-scale interactions.2012, Paul S. Johnson, Economic Evidence and the Changing Nature of Urban Space in Late Antique Rome, Universitat de Barcelona, page 91:
  • But in the characterization of the faces, there are clear differences between more late antique and more retrospective versions.2016, Marianne Bergmann, Martin Kovacs, “Portrait styles”, in R. R. R. Smith, Bryan Ward-Perkins, editors, The Last Statues of Antiquity...
  • There were still students of philosophy who committed their lives to the discipline, but they were a distinct minority among the late antique student population.2018, Edward Watts, “The Late Ancient Philosophical Scene”, in Anna Marmodoro, Sophie Cartwright, editors, A History of Mind and Body in...
  • Recent work on late antique Latin literature has expended much energy in attempts to define a period.2019, Philip Hardie, Classicism and Christianity in Late Antique Latin Poetry, University of California Press, page 223:

Forms of late antique

comparativemore late antique
superlativemost late antique
alternative formlate Antique
alternative formLate Antique
comparativemore Late Antique
superlativemost Late Antique

Questions about late antique

What does late antique mean?
Late antique means used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see late, antique.
How do you use late antique in a sentence?
The macro-scale distribution of goods across the classical and Late Antique worlds was produced by a web of small-scale interactions.
What part of speech is late antique?
Late antique is an adjective.

Words near late antique in the dictionary

  1. latchups
  2. latd.
  3. Latdorfian
  4. latds.
  5. late
  6. late antique
  7. late antiquity
  8. Late Aramaic
  9. late binding
  10. late blight
  11. late bloomer

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