antiquity

«antiquity» in Mova's school dictionary: the distant past, especially the time of ancient Greece… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (antiquity — uncountable; antiquities)

meaning for a pupil

1) Antiquity is the distant past, especially the time of ancient Greece and Rome. tree →

2) Antiquities are old objects and buildings from long ago, such as statues, coins and pots. tree →

3) Antiquity means being very old, as in a church of great antiquity. tree →

sense in the lessons

In history lessons, classical antiquity means ancient Greece and Rome; museums show antiquities from Egypt, Greece, China and more. In news, stealing and selling antiquities is a crime, and some countries ask museums to return objects taken long ago.

examples

• The Pyramids were built in antiquity. tree →
• The museum is full of Greek antiquities. tree →
• Roman roads survive from antiquity. tree →
• The church is of great antiquity. tree →
• Thieves smuggled antiquities out of the country. tree →
• Scholars study the writers of antiquity. tree →
• The city of Athens especially contains numerous remains of these buildings of antiquity. tree →

note

Uncountable for the time period; countable (antiquities) for objects. Related: antique (old valuable object), ancient. A formal word.

In the corpora

• Is this your joyous city, whose feet in antiquity, in ancient days, carried her afar off to sojourn?

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «antiquity» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.