Alternative forms

• antic, anticke (obsolete)
• antiq. (abbreviation)

Etymology

Borrowed from FrenchCategory:English terms borrowed from French#ANTIQUECategory:English terms derived from French#ANTIQUE antique (“ancient, old”), from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#ANTIQUE antiquus (“former, earlier, ancient, old”), from ante (“before”); see ante-. Doublet of anticCategory:English doublets#ANTIQUE.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ăn′tēk′
• (contemporary Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌanˈtiːk/Category:English 2-syllable words#ANTIQUECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ANTIQUE
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌænˈtik/Category:English 2-syllable words#ANTIQUECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ANTIQUE

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• (conservative Received Pronunciation; General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌænˈtiːk/Category:English 2-syllable words#ANTIQUECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ANTIQUE
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˌɛnˈtiːk/Category:English 2-syllable words#ANTIQUECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ANTIQUE
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˌanˈtik/Category:English 2-syllable words#ANTIQUECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ANTIQUE
• (India) IPA^(key): /ˌanˈʈiːk/Category:English 2-syllable words#ANTIQUECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ANTIQUE
• Rhymes: -iːkCategory:Rhymes:English/iːk#ANTIQUECategory:Rhymes:English/iːk/2 syllables#ANTIQUE
• Hyphenation: an‧tique

Adjective

antique (comparative antiquer, superlative antiquest)Category:English lemmas#ANTIQUECategory:English adjectives#ANTIQUECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ANTIQUECategory:Pages with entries#ANTIQUECategory:Pages with 5 entries#ANTIQUE

1. Having existed in ancient times, descended from antiquity; used especially in reference to Greece and Rome.
   • 1596, The Raigne of King Edvvard the third: […], London: Cuthbert Burby, unnumbered page:

     […] Phillip the younger issue of the king, / Coting the other hill in such arraie, / That all his guilded vpright pikes do seeme, / Streight trees of gold, the pendant leaues, / And their deuice of Antique heraldry, / Quartred in collours seeming sundy fruits, / Makes it the Orchard of the Hesperides, […]

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   • 1609, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene, Disposed Into XII. Bookes, Fashioning twelue Morall Vertues, London: Mathew Lownes, book 1, canto 11, verse 27, page 51:

     Not that great Champion of the antique world, / Whom famous Poets verse so much doth daunt, / And hath for twelue huge labours high extold, / So many furies and sharp fits did haunt, /  […]

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   • 1817 (published 11 January 1818), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Sonnet. Ozymandias.”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume III, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 67:

     I met a traveller from an antique land

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   • 1842, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Essays on the Greek Christian Poets and the English Poets, New York: James Miller, published 1863, page 179:

     From the rest they stand out contrastingly, as the Apollo of the later Greek sculpture-school,—too graceful for divinity and too vivacious for marble,—placed in a company of the antiquer statues with their grand blind look of the almightiness of repose.

     (Originally printed in 1842 in the Athenæum.)

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   • 1851, George William Curtis, Nile Notes of a Howadji, New York: Harper & Brothers, page 159:

     Believe an impartial Howadji who has no Cangie or other boats to let at Mahratta, that Nubia is a very different land from Egypt, and that you have not penetrated antiquest Egypt, until you have been awe-stricken by the silence which was buried ages ago in Aboo Simbel, and by the hand-folded Osiride figures, that people, like dumb and dead Gods, that dim, demonic hall.

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2. Belonging to former times, not modern, out of date, old-fashioned.
   • 1841 July 3, “Fine Arts”, in The Athenæum: Journal of Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts, number 714, London, page 509, column 3:

     Some traditions of this antiquer system may have passed into Van Eyck's method, from distemper into oil, and thence downwards, gradually more vague, into the modern process, till they at length disappeared altogether about Rubens's time.

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   • 1865, H. T. Sperry, Country Love vs. City Flirtation; or, Ten Chapters From the Story of a Life, New York: Carleton, page 10:

     A lonesome traveler might have been seen, / On the turnpike road near the village green, / In a grotesque suit of ultra-marine / And a hat broad-brimmed and conical, / Awkwardly perched in a family cart— / The very antiquest kind / Of an umbrella arching o'er him, / A long black trunk behind / And a short white pony before him, / That ambles on with a jerk and a start, / As though it were taking an active part / In a piece of German machinery.

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   • 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Tremarn Case”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:

     “There the cause of death was soon ascertained ; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto, which […] was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom. […]”

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   • 1957 July, M. D. Greville, “A Diamond Jubilee of Railway Memories”, in Railway Magazine, page 459:

     Lastly, I must mention the "Underground," to travel on which was, in those days, an experience to be remembered. There were the antique looking engines, and the rather grim carriages, with the fascinating indicators in the compartments to show (not always correctly!) the next station, and above all, there was the atmosphere.

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4. (typographyCategory:en:Typography#ANTIQUE) Designating a style of type.
5. (bookbindingCategory:en:Bookbinding#ANTIQUE) Embossed without gilt.
6. Synonym of old (“of color: subdued, as if faded over time”).
7. (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#ANTIQUE) Synonym of antic, specifically:
   1. Fantastic, odd, wild, antic.

Noun

antique (plural antiques)Category:English lemmas#ANTIQUECategory:English nouns#ANTIQUECategory:English countable nouns#ANTIQUECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ANTIQUECategory:Pages with entries#ANTIQUECategory:Pages with 5 entries#ANTIQUE

1. In general, anything very old; specifically:
   2. An old object perceived as having value because of its aesthetic or historical significance.

      Hyponym: junque

   3. An object of ancient times.
   4. (in the singular) The style or manner of ancient times, used especially of Greek and Roman art.
   5. (figuratively, mildly derogatoryCategory:English derogatory terms#ANTIQUE) An old person.
   6. (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#ANTIQUE) A man of ancient times.
      • 1577, Richarde Eden, Richarde Willes, The History of Trauayle in the VVest and East Indies, and other countreys lying eyther way, towardes the fruitfull and ryche Moluccaes: […], London: Richarde Iugge, folio 31:

        They supposed that they had seene those most beutyfull Dryades, or the natyue nymphes or fayres of the fountaynes whereof the antiques spake so muche.

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      • [1612], Henry Peacham, Minerva Britanna or a Garden of Heroical Deuises, furnished, and adorned with Emblemes and Impres'as of sundry natures, London, page 114:

        Wee eas'ly limme, some louely-Virgin face, / And can to life, a Lantscip represent, / Afford to Antiques, each his proper grace, / Or trick out this, or that compartement : / […]

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2. (typographyCategory:en:Typography#ANTIQUE) A style of type of thick and bold face in which all lines are of equal or nearly equal thickness.
3. (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#ANTIQUE) Synonym of antic, specifically:
   1. Grotesque entertainment; an antic.^[1]
      • c. 1595–1596 (date written), W. Shakespere [i.e., William Shakespeare], A Pleasant Conceited Comedie Called, Loues Labors Lost. […] (First Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for Cut[h]bert Burby, published 1598, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

        […] I do implore secretie, that the King would haue me present the Princesse (sweete chuck) with some delightfull ostentation, or show, or pageant, or antique, or fierworke : […]

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   2. A performer in an antic; or in general, a burlesque performer, a buffoon.^[1]

Verb

antique (third-person singular simple present antiques, present participle antiquing, simple past and past participle antiqued)Category:English lemmas#ANTIQUECategory:English verbs#ANTIQUECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ANTIQUECategory:Pages with entries#ANTIQUECategory:Pages with 5 entries#ANTIQUE

1. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#ANTIQUE) To search or shop for antiques.
   • 1999, Ron McAdoo, Caryl McAdoo, Antiquing in North Texas‎, page 103:

     Once our daughter-in-love, Janis, went antiquing with us because she and our firstborn, Matthew, were in the market for some bedroom furniture.

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2. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#ANTIQUE) To make (an object) appear to be an antique in some way.
3. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#ANTIQUE, bookbindingCategory:en:Bookbinding#ANTIQUE) To emboss without gilding.

References

Further reading

• “antique”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “antique”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

• quinate

Etymology

Inherited from Old FrenchCategory:French terms inherited from Old French#ANTIQUECategory:French terms derived from Old French#ANTIQUE antique, from antic, borrowed from LatinCategory:French terms borrowed from Latin#ANTIQUECategory:French terms derived from Latin#ANTIQUE antīquus. Compare also the inherited Old French antive, from the Latin feminine antīqua, which analogically influenced a masculine form antif (compare a similar occurrence in Spanish antiguo).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.tik/Category:French 2-syllable words#ANTIQUECategory:French terms with IPA pronunciation#ANTIQUE

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• Rhymes: -ikCategory:Rhymes:French/ik#ANTIQUECategory:Rhymes:French/ik/2 syllables#ANTIQUE
• Rhymes: -ɑ̃tikCategory:Rhymes:French/ɑ̃tik#ANTIQUECategory:Rhymes:French/ɑ̃tik/2 syllables#ANTIQUE

Adjective

antique (plural antiques)Category:French lemmas#ANTIQUECategory:French adjectives#ANTIQUECategory:French entries with incorrect language header#ANTIQUECategory:Pages with entries#ANTIQUECategory:Pages with 5 entries#ANTIQUE

1. ancient
2. (relationalCategory:French relational adjectives#ANTIQUE) of the Antiquity

Further reading

• “antique”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Anagrams

• taquine, taquiné

Adjective

antique f plCategory:Italian non-lemma forms#ANTIQUECategory:Italian adjective forms#ANTIQUECategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#ANTIQUECategory:Pages with entries#ANTIQUECategory:Pages with 5 entries#ANTIQUE

1. feminine plural of antiquo

Anagrams

• inqueta, nequità

Adjective

antīqueCategory:Latin non-lemma forms#ANTIQUECategory:Latin adjective forms#ANTIQUECategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#ANTIQUECategory:Pages with entries#ANTIQUECategory:Pages with 5 entries#ANTIQUE

1. vocative masculine singular of antīquus

References

• “antique”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “antique”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “antique”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Verb

antiqueCategory:Portuguese non-lemma forms#ANTIQUECategory:Portuguese verb forms#ANTIQUECategory:Portuguese entries with incorrect language header#ANTIQUECategory:Pages with entries#ANTIQUECategory:Pages with 5 entries#ANTIQUE

1. inflection of antiquar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative