ANTIQUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does antique mean? 

• ANTIQUE (noun)
  The noun ANTIQUE has 2 senses:

1. an elderly man

2. any piece of furniture or decorative object or the like produced in a former period and valuable because of its beauty or rarity

  Familiarity information: ANTIQUE used as a noun is rare.

• ANTIQUE (adjective)
  The adjective ANTIQUE has 3 senses:

1. made in or typical of earlier times and valued for its age

2. out of fashion

3. belonging to or lasting from times long ago

  Familiarity information: ANTIQUE used as an adjective is uncommon.

• ANTIQUE (verb)
  The verb ANTIQUE has 2 senses:

1. shop for antiques

2. give an antique appearance to

  Familiarity information: ANTIQUE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANTIQUE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An elderly man

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

antique; gaffer; old-timer; old geezer; oldtimer

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)

Sense 2

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)

• ANTIQUE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Made in or typical of earlier times and valued for its age

Context example:

the beautiful antique French furniture

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Out of fashion

Synonyms:

antique; demode; ex; old-fashioned; old-hat; outmoded; passe; passee

Context example:

outmoded ideas

Similar:

unfashionable; unstylish (not in accord with or not following current fashion)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Belonging to or lasting from times long ago

Synonyms:

age-old; antique

Context example:

the antique fear that days would dwindle away to complete darkness

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)

• ANTIQUE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shop for antiques

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Context example:

We went antiquing on Saturday

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Give an antique appearance to

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

antiquate; antique

Context example:

antique furniture

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)

 Context examples 

We often walk in the Tuileries Gardens, for they are lovely, though the antique Luxembourg Gardens suit me better.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But so low did the building stand, that she found herself passing through the great gates of the lodge into the very grounds of Northanger, without having discerned even an antique chimney.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

It is seldom, indeed, an English face comes so near the antique models as did his.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

In the center of the rich red carpet was a black and gold Louis Quinze table, a lovely antique, now sacrilegiously desecrated with marks of glasses and the scars of cigar-stumps.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He held in his hand an antique silver lamp, in which the flame burned without chimney or globe of any kind, throwing long quivering shadows as it flickered in the draught of the open door.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The father of their charge was one of those Italians nursed in the memory of the antique glory of Italy—one among the schiavi ognor frementi, who exerted himself to obtain the liberty of his country.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

If you work in an industry that deals with historical artifacts, landmark buildings, estates, or antiques and heirlooms, you will also have a good chance of meeting someone on or near the weekend of November 24.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

What Julia calls “society”, I see; among it Mr. Jack Maldon, from his Patent Place, sneering at the hand that gave it him, and speaking to me of the Doctor as “so charmingly antique”.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A few strange, antique portraits of the men and women of other days decorated the stained walls; a cupboard with glass doors contained some books and an ancient set of china.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It must be confessed that the artist sometimes got possession of the woman, and indulged in antique coiffures, statuesque attitudes, and classic draperies.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)