Synonyms for antiquarian

Grammar : Adj

Spell : an-ti-kwair-ee-uh n

Phonetic Transcription : ˌæn tɪˈkwɛər i ən

Définition of antiquarian

Origin : "one who studies or is fond of antiquities," c.1600, from Latin antiquarius "pertaining to antiquity," from antiquus (see antique (adj.)) + -an. As an adjective from 1771.

adj old, ancient

Example sentences :

Such an act of antiquarian barbarism happily has few imitators.
Extract from : « English Villages » by P. H. Ditchfield

Nor does anybody, save here and there an antiquarian, read Shepard and Hooker and Mayhew.
Extract from : « The American Mind » by Bliss Perry

The antiquary is a collector; the antiquarian a student or writer.
Extract from : « Sir Walter Scott » by George Saintsbury

He was also a painter of considerable merit, a writer and an antiquarian.
Extract from : « Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete » by Albert Bigelow Paine

His name was Ottaviani, and he was also an antiquarian of some repute.
Extract from : « The Memoires of Casanova, Complete » by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

To be an antiquary is one thing, and to be an antiquarian romancer is another.
Extract from : « My Contemporaries In Fiction » by David Christie Murray

I have had a sniff of it already in the proceedings of the Antiquarian Society.
Extract from : « The Book-Hunter » by John Hill Burton

These last have an interest indeed, but it is an interest of an antiquarian character.
Extract from : « English Past and Present » by Richard Chevenix Trench

Antiquarian had better send a rubbing from the oak cover in question.
Extract from : « Notes and Queries, Number 187, May 28, 1853 » by Various

Hoyt, Antiquarian Researches, gives a valuable account of it.
Extract from : « A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I » by Francis Parkman

Antonyms for antiquarian

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