Definition of Antiques

1. Noun. (plural of antique) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Antiques

1. antique [v] - See also: antique

Lexicographical Neighbors of Antiques

antiquates
antiquating
antiquation
antiquations
antique
antique shop
antique white
antiqued
antiqueen
antiquely
antiqueness
antiquer
antiquers
antiques (current term)
antiques shop
antiquest
antiquey
antiquing
antiquist
antiquists
antiquitarian
antiquitarians
antiquities
antiquity
antirabbinic
antirabbinical
antirabbit
antirabies

Literary usage of Antiques

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1805)
"The collection of antiques at Dresden, .contains, ... The inadequate attempts of Le Plat and Casanova to make the antiques of Dresden known by engravings, ..."

2. Gems of Chinese Literature by Herbert Allen Giles (1884)
"antiques. FOR some years I had possessed an old inkstand, left at my house by a friend. It came into ordinary use as such, I being unaware that it was an ..."

3. The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. by Washington Irving (1906)
"LONDON antiques. 1 do walk Methinks like Guide Vaux, with my dark lanthorn, Stealing to set the town o' fire ; i' th' country I should be taken for William ..."

4. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"... also are a marble group of A Boy leading a Bull to Sacrifice,' and busts of Euripides and Paris copied in marble from antiques in the Vatican at Rome. ..."

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