- antiquity
- I(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)II(Roget's IV) n.1. [The quality of being old]Syn. antiqueness, ancientness, oldness, elderliness, age, old age, Great age, venerableness, hoariness, archaism, archaicism, obsolescence.Ant. newness*, modernity, youthfulness.2. [An object out of the past; used in plural ]3. [Ancient times]Syn. remote times, ancient times, old days, former ages, the olden time, days of old, days of yore, distant past, ancient history, classical times, Homeric age, Athens, Etruscan period, ancient Egypt, Chou Dynasty, Roman era, era before Christ, pagan times, Babylon, Biblical days, Hellenistic period, Dark Ages, early ages, the time before the Middle Ages.Ant. present*, modern times, contemporary times.III(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.1. prehistory yore, olden days, bigot, chauvinist, Nazi.
English dictionary for students. 2013.