Thesaurus: antiquity

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1. n. The quality of being ancient; ancientness; great age; as, a statue of remarkable antiquity; a family of great antiquity.
2. n. Old age.
3. n. Ancient times; former ages; times long since past; as, Cicero was an eloquent orator of antiquity.
4. n. The ancients; the people of ancient times.
5. n. An old gentleman.
6. n. A relic or monument of ancient times; as, a coin, a statue, etc.; an ancient institution. [In this sense, usually in the plural.]
7. n. the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe
8. n. extreme oldness
9. n. an artifact surviving from the past
10. n:100 n. the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe n. an artifact surviving from the past