antique

noun10

1. •
   In general, anything very old.
2. •
   An old object perceived as having value because of its aesthetic or historical significance.
3. •
   An object of ancient times.
4. •
   The style or manner of ancient times, used especially of Greek and Roman art.
5. •
   (offensive, figurative) An old person.
6. •
   A style of type of thick and bold face in which all lines are of equal or nearly equal thickness.
7. •
   (no longer used) A man of ancient times.

   • They supposed that they had seene those most beutyfull Dryades, or the natyue nymphes or fayres of the fountaynes whereof the antiques spake so muche. — 1577
8. •
   (no longer used) Synonym of antic.
9. •
   (no longer used) Grotesque entertainment; an antic.

   • […] I do implore secretie, that the King would haue me present the Princesse (sweete chuck) with some delightfull ostentation, or show, or pageant, or antique, or fierworke : […] — 1595
10. •
    (no longer used) A performer in an antic; or in general, a burlesque performer, a buffoon.

adjective7

1. •
   Belonging to former times, not modern, out of date, old-fashioned.
2. •
   Having existed in ancient times, descended from antiquity; used especially in reference to Greece and Rome.

   • Not that great Champion of the antique world, / Whom famous Poets verse so much doth daunt, / And hath for twelue huge labours high extold, / So many furies and sharp fits did haunt, / […] — 1609
3. •
   Synonym of old (“of color: subdued, as if faded over time”).
4. •
   Designating a style of type.
5. •
   Embossed without gilt.
6. •
   (no longer used) Fantastic, odd, wild, antic.
7. •
   (no longer used) Synonym of antic.

verb3

1. •
   To search or shop for antiques.

   • Once our daughter-in-love, Janis, went antiquing with us because she and our firstborn, Matthew, were in the market for some bedroom furniture. — 1999
2. •
   To make (an object) appear to be an antique in some way.
3. •
   To emboss without gilding.

noun1

1. •
   A province of Western Visayas, Visayas, Philippines. Capital: San Jose de Buenavista.