Definitions
Old, collectible, or valued for age and rarity.
Word origin
Borrowed from French antique (“ancient, old”), from Latin antiquus (“former, earlier, ancient, old”), from ante (“before”); see ante-. Doublet of antic.
Used in a sentence
“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, / […]”
“I met a traveller from an antique land”
“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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Old collectible”7 letters
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