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ANTIQUE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any piece of furniture or decorative object or the like produced in a former period and valuable because of its beauty or rarity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("antique" is a kind of...):
antiquity (an artifact surviving from the past)
Derivation:
antiquate; antique (give an antique appearance to)
antique (shop for antiques)
antique (belonging to or lasting from times long ago)
antique (made in or typical of earlier times and valued for its age)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An elderly man
Synonyms:
antique; gaffer; old-timer; old geezer; oldtimer
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("antique" is a kind of...):
graybeard; greybeard; Methuselah; old man (a man who is very old)
Derivation:
antique (belonging to or lasting from times long ago)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Out of fashion
Example:
outmoded ideas
Synonyms:
antique; demode; ex; old-fashioned; old-hat; outmoded; passe; passee
Classified under:
Similar:
unfashionable; unstylish (not in accord with or not following current fashion)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Belonging to or lasting from times long ago
Example:
the antique fear that days would dwindle away to complete darkness
Synonyms:
age-old; antique
Classified under:
Similar:
old (of long duration; not new)
Derivation:
antique (any piece of furniture or decorative object or the like produced in a former period and valuable because of its beauty or rarity)
antique (an elderly man)
antiquity (extreme oldness)
antiquity (the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Made in or typical of earlier times and valued for its age
Example:
the beautiful antique French furniture
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
old (of long duration; not new)
Derivation:
antique (any piece of furniture or decorative object or the like produced in a former period and valuable because of its beauty or rarity)
antiquity (an artifact surviving from the past)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Give an antique appearance to
Example:
antique furniture
Synonyms:
antiquate; antique
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "antique" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
antique (any piece of furniture or decorative object or the like produced in a former period and valuable because of its beauty or rarity)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Shop for antiques
Example:
We went antiquing on Saturday
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "antique" is one way to...):
browse; shop (shop around; not necessarily buying)
Domain category:
commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Sentence example:
In the summer they like to go out and antique
Derivation:
antique (any piece of furniture or decorative object or the like produced in a former period and valuable because of its beauty or rarity)
Context examples:
But no—eventide is as pleasant to him as to me, and this antique garden as attractive; and he strolls on, now lifting the gooseberry-tree branches to look at the fruit, large as plums, with which they are laden; now taking a ripe cherry from the wall; now stooping towards a knot of flowers, either to inhale their fragrance or to admire the dew-beads on their petals.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
And hanging the antique broad-brim on a bust of Plato, Jo read her letters.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I must see the light of the unsnuffed candle wane on my employment; the shadows darken on the wrought, antique tapestry round me, and grow black under the hangings of the vast old bed, and quiver strangely over the doors of a great cabinet opposite—whose front, divided into twelve panels, bore, in grim design, the heads of the twelve apostles, each enclosed in its separate panel as in a frame; while above them at the top rose an ebon crucifix and a dying Christ.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Very clever were some of their productions, pasteboard guitars, antique lamps made of old-fashioned butter boats covered with silver paper, gorgeous robes of old cotton, glittering with tin spangles from a pickle factory, and armor covered with the same useful diamond shaped bits left in sheets when the lids of preserve pots were cut out.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I, too, in the grey, small, antique structure, with its low roof, its latticed casements, its mouldering walls, its avenue of aged firs—all grown aslant under the stress of mountain winds; its garden, dark with yew and holly—and where no flowers but of the hardiest species would bloom—found a charm both potent and permanent.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Amy's chief delight was an Indian cabinet, full of queer drawers, little pigeonholes, and secret places, in which were kept all sorts of ornaments, some precious, some merely curious, all more or less antique.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Dark handsome new carpets and curtains, an arrangement of some carefully selected antique ornaments in porcelain and bronze, new coverings, and mirrors, and dressing-cases, for the toilet tables, answered the end: they looked fresh without being glaring.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
As she arranged her table that morning, while the little girls were in the anteroom filling the baskets, she took up her pet production, a little book, the antique cover of which her father had found among his treasures, and in which on leaves of vellum she had beautifully illuminated different texts.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
