An expert or collector of antiquities.
synonyms: antiquarian, archaist.
Roget 122:
the past,
past time;
days of yore,
times of yore,
days of old,
times of old,
days past,
times past,
days gone by,
times gone by;
bygone days;
old times,
ancient times,
former times;
fore time;
the good old days,
the olden time,
good old time;
auld lang syne†;
eld†.
antiquity,
antiqueness†,
status quo;
time immemorial;
distance of time;
remote age,
remote time;
remote past;
rust of antiquity.
[study of the past]
paleontology,
paleography,
paleology†;
paleozoology;
palaetiology†,
archaeology;
paleogeography;
paleoecology;
paleobotany;
paleoclimatoogy;
archaism,
antiquarianism,
medievalism,
Pre-Raphaelitism;
paleography.
retrospect,
retrospection,
looking back,
memory
etc.
505.
laudator temporis acti [Lat.];
medievalist,
Pre-Raphaelite;
antiquary,
antiquarian;
archmologist
&c.;
Oldbuck,
Dryasdust.
ancestry
etc.
(paternity)
166.
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Roget 492:
scholar,
connoisseur,
savant,
pundit,
schoolman†,
professor,
graduate,
wrangler;
academician,
academist†;
master of arts,
doctor,
licentitate,
gownsman;
philosopher,
master of math;
scientist,
clerk;
sophist,
sophister†;
linguist;
glossolinguist,
philologist;
philologer†;
lexicographer,
glossographer;
grammarian;
litterateur [Fr.],
literati,
dilettanti,
illuminati,
cogniscenti [It];
fellow,
Hebraist,
lexicologist,
mullah,
munshi†,
Sanskritish;
sinologist,
sinologue†;
Mezzofanti†,
admirable Crichton,
Mecaenas.
bookworm,
helluo librorum [Lat.];
bibliophile,
bibliomaniac†;
bluestocking,
bas-bleu [Fr.];
bigwig,
learned Theban,
don;
Artium Baccalaureus [Lat.],
Artium Magister [Lat.].
learned man,
literary man;
homo multarum literarum [Lat.];
man of learning,
man of letters,
man of education,
man of genius.
antiquarian,
antiquary;
archaeologist.
sage
etc.
(wise man)
500.
pedant,
doctrinaire;
pedagogue,
Dr.
Pangloss;
pantologist†,
criminologist.
schoolboy
etc.
(learner)
541.
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Roget 553:
recorder,
notary,
clerk;
registrar,
registrary†,
register;
prothonotary [Law];
amanuensis,
secretary,
scribe,
babu†,
remembrancer†,
bookkeeper,
custos rotulorum [Lat.],
Master of the Rolls.
annalist;
historian,
historiographer;
chronicler,
journalist;
biographer
etc.
(narrator)
594;
antiquary
etc.
(antiquity)
122;
memorialist†;
interviewer.
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