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Adjective: antique  an'teek
  1. Made in or typical of earlier times and valued for its age
    "the beautiful antique French furniture"
     
  2. Out of fashion
    "a suit of rather antique appearance"; "antique attire";
    - démodé, ex, old-fashioned, old-hat [informal], outmoded, passé, passée, vieux jeu, rinky-dink [N. Amer, informal]
     
  3. Belonging to or lasting from times long ago
    "the antique fear that days would dwindle away to complete darkness";
    - age-old
Noun: antique  an'teek
  1. Any piece of furniture or decorative object or the like produced in a former period and valuable because of its beauty or rarity
     
  2. [informal] An elderly man or woman
    - old-timer [informal], oldtimer [informal], gaffer [informal], old geezer [informal]
Verb: antique  an'teek
  1. Shop for antiques
    "We went antiquing on Saturday"
     
  2. Give an antique appearance to
    "antique furniture";
    - antiquate

Derived forms: antiquing, antiques, antiqued

See also: daggy [Austral, NZ, informal], old, unfashionable, unstylish

Type of: alter, antiquity, browse, change, graybeard [US], greybeard [Brit, Cdn], Methuselah, modify, old man, shop

Encyclopedia: Antique, Philippines