Crossword clues for antique
antique
- Many an auction piece
- Valuable old item
- Ancient relic
- Rare item in auction lots
- Prized heirloom
- PBS "Roadshow" item
- Old but coveted
- Of a much earlier era
- Ming jar, e.g
- It's not new
- Garage sale discovery
- Estate-sale offering
- Collector's buy
- Appraiser's specimen
- (Something) valuable because of age and quality
- ''Roadshow'' item
- Object of many an appraisal
- Relic
- Ming jar, e.g.
- An elderly man
- Any piece of furniture or decorative object or the like produced in a former period and valuable because of its beauty or rarity
- Bygone
- Treasured relic
- Valued old item
- Valuable old article stuck to wood, say
- Article quite new? Not this
- Early C18 garden furniture, you might say
- Old opponent fairly devoid of it
- Old article, quite shabby
- Historic item? Not in favour and quite dismissing it
- It's nothing new
- Far from new
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Antique \An*tique"\, n. [F. See Antique, a. ] In general, anything very old; but in a more limited sense, a relic or object of ancient art; collectively, the antique, the remains of ancient art, as busts, statues, paintings, and vases.
Misshapen monuments and maimed antiques.
--Byron.
Antique \An*tique"\, a. [F., fr. L. antiquus old, ancient, equiv. to anticus, from ante before. Cf. Antic.]
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Old; ancient; of genuine antiquity; as, an antique statue. In this sense it usually refers to the flourishing ages of Greece and Rome.
For the antique world excess and pride did hate.
--Spenser. Old, as respects the present age, or a modern period of time; of old fashion; antiquated; as, an antique robe. ``Antique words.''
--Spenser.Made in imitation of antiquity; as, the antique style of Thomson's ``Castle of Indolence.''
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Odd; fantastic. [In this sense, written antic.]
Syn: Ancient; antiquated; obsolete; antic; old-fashioned; old. See Ancient.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, "aged, venerable," from Middle French antique "old" (14c.), from Latin antiquus (later anticus) "ancient, former, of olden times; old, long in existence, aged; venerable; old-fashioned," from PIE *anti in sense of "before" (see ante) + *okw- "appearance" (see eye (n.)). Originally pronounced in English like its parallel antic, but French pronunciation and spelling were adopted from c.1700.
"an old and collectible thing," 1771, from antique (adj.).
"to give an antique appearance to," 1896, from antique (adj.). Related: Antiqued; antiquing.\n
Wiktionary
old, used especially of furniture and household items; out of date. n. 1 An old piece of furniture, household item, or other similar item. 2 (label en figuratively mildly pejorative) An old person. v
1 (label en intransitive) To shop for antiques; to search for antiques. 2 (label en transitive) To make an object appear to be an antique in some way.
WordNet
adj. made in or typical of earlier times and valued for its age; "the beautiful antique French furniture"
out of fashion; "a suit of rather antique appearance"; "demode (or outmoded) attire"; "outmoded ideas" [syn: demode, ex, old-fashioned, old-hat(p), outmoded, passe, passee]
belonging to or lasting from times long ago; "age-old customs"; "the antique fear that days would dwindle away to complete darkness" [syn: age-old]
n. an elderly man [syn: old-timer, oldtimer, gaffer, old geezer]
any piece of furniture or decorative object or the like produced in a former period and valuable because of its beauty or rarity
v. shop for antiques; "We went antiquing on Saturday"
give an antique appearance to; "antique furniture" [syn: antiquate]
Wikipedia
Antique (Pronunciation: ) or is a province of the Philippines located in the region of Western Visayas. Its capital is San Jose. The province is situated in the western section of Panay Island and borders Aklan, Capiz and Iloilo to the east, while facing the Sulu Sea to the west.
An antique (; "old", "ancient") is an old collectable item. It is collected or desirable because of its age, beauty, rarity, condition, utility, personal emotional connection, and/or other unique features. It is an object that represents a previous era or time period in human society.
It is common practice to define "antique" as applying to objects at least 100 years old.
Antiques are usually objects that show some degree of craftsmanship—or a certain attention to design, such as a desk or an early automobile. They are bought at antique shops, estate sales, auction houses, online auctions, and other venues, or estate inherited. Antique dealers often belong to national trade associations, many of which belong to CINOA, a confederation of art and antique associations across 21 countries that represents 5,000 dealers.
Antique is an EP consisting of remixes from Antique's hit singles " Opa Opa" and " Dinata Dinata". It was released on October 18, 2000 by Popular Records.
An antique is an old collectible item
Antique may also refer to:
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Antique (band), a Greek-Swede musical group
- Antique (EP), 2000 release by the duo
- Antique (film), a 2008 South Korean film
- The Antique (film), a 2014 film starring Olu Jacobs and Bimbo Akintola
- Antiques (magazine), a monthly arts publication
- Antique (province), a province of the Philippines in the Western Visayas region
Antique is a 2008 South Korean comedy film, starring Ju Ji-hoon, Kim Jae-wook, Yoo Ah-in and Choi Ji-ho. It is based on Fumi Yoshinaga's manga Antique Bakery. It was released on 13 November 2008.
It was invited to the 59th Berlin International Film Festival.
Antique was a Swedish- Greek singing duo consisting of Elena Paparizou (Έλενα Παπαρίζου in Greek) and Nikos Panagiotidis (Νίκος Παναγιωτίδης in Greek) originating from Sweden which combined Greek popular music and lyrics with a Nordic dance pop beat. Both Paparizou and Panagiotidis were born and raised in Sweden by Greek parents. They were the first ever to be nominated for a Swedish Grammis in the category modern dance with a Greek song. In 2001, Antique were selected to represent Greece at the Eurovision Song Contest in Copenhagen with the song " Die for You", sung in a blend of English and Greek, ending with a third place – only behind Estonia and hosts Denmark.
Usage examples of "antique".
On the dressing table, ably guarded by a dark Regency armchair cushioned in yet another floral, sat an assemblage of antique silver-hair accessories and crystal perfume flacons, the grouping flanked by two small lamps, everything centered around a gold Empire vanity mirror.
Despite a conservative training--or because of it, for humdrum lives breed wistful longings of the unknown--he swore a great oath to scale that avoided northern cliff and visit the abnormally antique gray cottage in the sky.
It showed a man in antique clothing standing behind a fossil ammonite that almost reached his waist.
She matched the antique ambience of the place almost to a T, the only anachronistic feature being the optical fiber running from the desk to her datajack.
Antique mirrors, gold-lettered with advertisements for cigarettes and aperitifs, were fixed to every wall.
But at a glance, Harry could tell that it qualified for the preservation of the Argyle treasures, and was there as a residence for the men who had those priceless antiques under their protection.
Gillette paused, judged distances behind him then tossed the audion tube at Phate, who cried out in horror and dropped the crowbar, trying to catch the antique.
Lily Bede spent money like this on every meal and hosted conventions for impecunious suffragists, and collected antique race horses as pets, she must be damn near running the estate into the ground.
The boxes may show us some verdant antiques, Some old harridans who beplaster their cheeks.
Philippe Liotard had started collecting testimonials from bibliophiles, and it had turned out that Steuvels was one of the best bookbinders in Paris, possibly the best, and that collectors entrusted their delicate work to him, especially the restoration of antique bindings.
He praised the Chevalier twins, claiming their galerie had the best tapestries and antique rugs in all of Paris-which to him meant in all the world-and raved about Jacques Perrin, an aggressive dealer who was one of the first foreigners to exhibit at BLIrlington House-the London show that alternated years with the Biennale and admitted more foreign dealers than Grosvenor House.
Only in Tokyo could the jam-packed bizarrerie of a byway like Takeshita-dori exist side by side with the elegant teahouses and antiques shops of Brahms-no-komichi, and the stark contrast is one of the reasons Harajuku has always been one of my favorite parts of the city.
Now I found myself upon an apparently abandoned road which I had chosen as the shortest cut to Arkham, overtaken by the storm at a point far from any town, and confronted with no refuge save the antique and repellent wooden building which blinked with bleared windows from between two huge leafless elms near the foot of a rocky hill.
There was a parcel, neatly wrapped and itemized, of ammunition, including both the rare caseless rounds and the antique .
However, Centaine had ordered the antique Limoges dinner service and the best silver.