antiquity

antiquity has 9 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 9.

Definitions

• n.. The quality of being ancient; ancientness; great age; as, a statue of remarkable antiquity; a family of great antiquity.
• n.. Old age.
• n.. Ancient times; former ages; times long since past; as, Cicero was an eloquent orator of antiquity.
• n.. The ancients; the people of ancient times.
• n.. An old gentleman.
• n.. A relic or monument of ancient times; as, a coin, a statue, etc.; an ancient institution. [In this sense, usually in the plural.]
• n.. an artifact surviving from the past
• n.. extreme oldness
• n.. the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe