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classic is an adjective and noun meaning "of or relating to the first significant period of a civilization, culture, area of study, etc.". It carries 6 recorded senses.
of or relating to the first significant period of a civilization, culture, area of study, etc.
“classic Chinese pottery”
“classical Marxism”
of a well-known type; remarkably typical
“the classic struggle between good and evil”
“I woke up with all the classic symptoms of the flu”
“she made the classic mistake of choosing style over substance”
considered of the highest quality and lasting significance or worth
“a classic car”
“`War and Peace' is a classic novel”
well-known and long-established in form or style
“a classical ballet”
“classic double-breasted suit”
“the classic struggle between good and evil”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for classic come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.