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antique English

Meaning antique meaning

What does antique mean?
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antique

An antique is something that is old for its type. This lamp is an antique, it is 200 years old.

antique

If something is antique, it is older than most things similar to it. He had his antique car refinished.

antique

made in or typical of earlier times and valued for its age the beautiful antique French furniture (= demode, outmoded) out of fashion a suit of rather antique appearance demode (or outmoded) attire outmoded ideas shop for antiques We went antiquing on Saturday give an antique appearance to antique furniture any piece of furniture or decorative object or the like produced in a former period and valuable because of its beauty or rarity (= age-old) belonging to or lasting from times long ago age-old customs the antique fear that days would dwindle away to complete darkness (= old-timer) an elderly man

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Simple sentences

This antique clock is worth one thousand dollars.
An antique pot was dug out.
Antique carpets are especially valuable.
He came across this old coin in an antique shop.
She has some beautiful antique furniture.
Many people think that antique cars are overpriced.
Tom collects antique clocks.
Tom bought an antique rug.
This table is a priceless antique.
Nowhere but in the world of the antique is it more obvious that many of the things that we, as individuals hold dear, are completely arbitrary.
The white house is antique.
Tom purchased an antique rug.
He sells antique carpets.
His eyes were as red burning coals; long grey hair fell over his shoulders in matted coils; his garments, which were of antique cut, were soiled and ragged, and from his wrists and ankles hung heavy manacles and rusty gyves.
This isn't any old chair; it's an antique.
We restore antique furniture.
Mary collects antique dolls.

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An antique.
That's the same thing the girl in the antique shop said.
And I'm the daughter of Conliffe who owns the antique shop.
No, I'm going to stay here. I want to see about brightening up this antique shop. - The photographers will be here.
This vase, for instance. and that, uh, clock, of course. and the antique fire screen.
I said last month I was searching in vain through antique shops for a rocking chair like Granny had.
I live right in the corner house where the antique shop is. the one with the wooden Indian outside.
Oh, antique dealer.
The truth is, I'm not really an antique dealer.
He thinks you committed the crime to get possession of some antique.
Is that a real antique?
I hope it's not some priceless antique.
And why do you keep your antique?
Looks antique.
Did you find it at an antique store?
Beautiful, valuable antique.
I want to see about brightening up this antique shop.
If necessary every antique shop in Washington.
I deduced that it's been used in an antique shop and whoever controls those antiques murdered Grayson and kidnapped the girl. What?
This vase, for instance, and that clock, of course, and the antique fire screen.
It's just an antique. You can't fire it.
Just an antique, huh?
I'll make some preliminary tests here. and then I'll go out to the antique shop and make a further examination.
As a matter of fact, the antique dealer was. a well-known crook and dealer in stolen goods.
You thought you had something to do with that antique dealer in Fulham. but you didn't.
Who still uses such an antique now?
Very antique, if you know what I mean.
Oh, antique, eh?
Another antique, eh?
No antique toys.
When my nephew gets through with them, they'll be antique.
No, but I do know that there's a meeting at 3:00 at the antique shop and they're expecting two munition experts from Detroit.
That antique joint's a front for the whole works.
Assign a dozen men. Check every art store and antique shop in the neighborhood.
An antique shop on 3rd Avenue.
This man bought one of your pictures last night in an antique shop on 3rd Avenue.
She was in the antique shop trying to buy that picture herself. York was with a man who outbid her.

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Though a small group of collectors invests speculatively in antique or specialty cars, the idea of speculating in automobiles just is not in the public consciousness.

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