Meaning of ANTIQUITY
| Pronunciation: | | an'tikwitee
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- [n] an artifact surviving from the past
- [n] extreme oldness
- [n] the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe
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| | See Also: | | antique, artefact, artifact, historic period, history, oldness, relic, Roman building, stela, stele | |
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| | Definition: | |  Antiquity
Bestselling author Norman Cantor delivers this compact but magisterial survey of the ancient world -- from the birth of Sumerian civilization around 3500 B.C. in the Tigris-Euphrates valley (present-day Iraq) to the fall of the Roman Empire in A.D. 476. In Antiquity, Cantor covers such subjects as Classical Greece, Judaism, the founding of Christianity, and the triumph and decline of Rome.In this fascinating and comprehensive analysis, the author explores social and cultural history, as well as the political and economic aspects of his narrative. He explains leading themes in religion and philosophy and discusses the environment, population, and public health. With his signature authority and insight, Cantor highlights the great books and ideas of antiquity that continue to influence culture today. more details ... |
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| | Definition: | | \An*tiq"ui*ty\, n.; pl. {Antiquities}. [L. antiquitas,
fr. antiquus: cf. F. antiquit['e]. See {Antique}.]
1. The quality of being ancient; ancientness; great age; as,
a statue of remarkable antiquity; a family of great
antiquity.
2. Old age. [Obs.]
It not your voice broken? . . . and every part about
you blasted with antiquity? --Shak.
3. Ancient times; former ages; times long since past; as,
Cicero was an eloquent orator of antiquity.
4. The ancients; the people of ancient times.
That such pillars were raised by Seth all antiquity
has ?vowed. --Sir W.
Raleigh.
5. An old gentleman. [Obs.]
You are a shrewd antiquity, neighbor Clench. --B.
Jonson.
6. A relic or monument of ancient times; as, a coin, a
statue, etc.; an ancient institution.
Note: [In this sense, usually in the plural.] ``Heathen
antiquities.'' --Bacon.
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| | Related Terms: | | abidingness, aboriginality, age, ancien regime, ancient history, ancient manuscript, ancient times, ancientness, antique, archaism, artifact, atavism, cave painting, cobwebs of antiquity, constancy, continuance, defeat of time, defiance of time, distance of time, distant past, diuturnity, durability, durableness, duration, dust of ages, eld, elderliness, eldership, endurance, eolith, fossil, great age, hoary age, hoary eld, inveteracy, lastingness, long standing, longevity, long-lastingness, long-livedness, maintenance, mezzolith, microlith, neolith, old age, old order, old style, oldness, paleolith, perdurability, perennation, permanence, perpetuity, persistence, petrification, petrified forest, petrified wood, petroglyph, plateaulith, primitiveness, primogeniture, primordialism, primordiality, relic, reliquiae, remains, remote age, ruin, ruins, senility, seniority, stability, standing, steadfastness, survival, survivance, time immemorial, venerableness, vestige |
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