antique

1. 1.

   an elderly man

   Synonymsold-timeroldtimergafferold geezer

   Broaderold man
2. 2.

   any piece of furniture or decorative object or the like produced in a former period and valuable because of its beauty or rarity

   Broaderantiquity

1. 1.

   shop for antiques

   “We went antiquing on Saturday”

   Broadershop

   commerce

2. 2.

   give an antique appearance to

   “antique furniture”

   Synonymsantiquate

   Broaderchange

Other forms of antique

plural

antiques·

past tense

antiqued·

present participle

antiquing·

comparative

antiquer·

superlative

antiquest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about antique

What does antique mean?

antique means "made in or typical of earlier times and valued for its age". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in antique?

antique has 2 syllables: antiq-ue. The stress falls on "ue". In IPA it is /ænˈtik/.

What is another word for antique?

Close synonyms include demode, ex, old-fashioned, old-hat, outmoded. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is antique a common word?

antique is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with antique?

4 words rhyme with antique. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.