Antiquity: Definition and part of speech

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Antiquity

  1. n. A relic or monument of ancient times; as, a coin, a statue, etc.; an ancient institution. [In this sense, usually in the plural.]
  2. n. The quality of being ancient; ancientness; great age; as, a statue of remarkable antiquity; a family of great antiquity.
  3. n. Old age.
  4. n. Ancient times; former ages; times long since past; as, Cicero was an eloquent orator of antiquity.
  5. n. The ancients; the people of ancient times.
  6. n. An old gentleman.

    7. The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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