Ancient times; faraway history; former ages.
Cicero was an eloquent orator of antiquity.
The people of ancient times.
That such pillars were raised by Seth all antiquity has avowed.
An old gentleman.
You are a shrewd antiquity, neighbor Clench.
The period of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome.
From Middle English antiquyte, antiquite, antiquytee, a borrowing from Old French antiquité, antiquitet, from Latin antiquitas, from antiquus. Equivalent to antique + -ity. See antique, antic. Compare...
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