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# antiquity

noun (antiquity — uncountable; antiquities)

«antiquity» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Antiquity is the distant past, especially the time of ancient Greece and Rome. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/antiquity/#m1)
2. Antiquities are old objects and buildings from long ago, such as statues, coins and pots. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/antiquity/#m2)
3. Antiquity means being very old, as in a church of great antiquity. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/antiquity/#m3)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/antiquity/#x1)
- The museum is full of Greek antiquities. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/antiquity/#x2)
- Roman roads survive from antiquity. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/antiquity/#x3)
- The church is of great antiquity. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/antiquity/#x4)
- Thieves smuggled antiquities out of the country. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/antiquity/#x5)
- Scholars study the writers of antiquity. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/antiquity/#x6)
- The city of Athens especially contains numerous remains of these buildings of antiquity. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/antiquity/#x7)

### Note

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

## In Jewish tradition

It refers to the ancient world, with its old writing systems and philosophers. In the primary 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 Pythagorean philosophy is the greatest enigma of all philosophical systems of antiquity. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/antiquity/#x1)
- The purpose of the author was to e ..pliiisizc the superiority of alphabetic writing over the non-alphabetic writing (ideographic and syllabic) used by all the nations of antiquity, and even now by a great portion of mankind. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/antiquity/#x2)
- Is this your joyous city, whose feet in antiquity, in ancient days, carried her afar off to sojourn? (Prophets ISA.23.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/antiquity/#x3)

### Note

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «antiquity» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/antiquity/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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- [Trees and pragmatics of «antiquity» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/antiquity/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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