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antiquity
noun
1 antiquity
The historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe.
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 124:
oldness
etc.
adj.†;
age,
antiquity;
cobwebs of antiquity.
maturity;
decline,
decay;
senility
etc.
128.
seniority,
eldership,
primogeniture.
archaism
etc.
(the past)
122;
thing of the past,
relic of the past;
megatherium†;
Sanskrit.
tradition,
prescription,
custom,
immemorial usage,
common law.
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Dutch: oudheid
Polish: starożytność, antyk
2 antiquity
Extreme oldness.
synonym: ancientness.
Dutch: oudheid
Polish: dawność, starodawność
3 antiquity
An artifact surviving from the past.
Dutch: antiquiteit, oudheid
Polish: staroć, zabytek
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