[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/antiquity.html)

[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [The Judaism dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/) / antiquity

[← A](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/A/)

# antiquity

«antiquity» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **the distant past, especially the time of ancient Greece…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (antiquity — uncountable; antiquities)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Antiquity is the distant past, especially the time of ancient Greece and Rome. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/antiquity/#m1)

2) Antiquities are old objects and buildings from long ago, such as statues, coins and pots. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/antiquity/#m2)

3) Antiquity means being very old, as in a church of great antiquity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/antiquity/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It refers to the ancient world, with its old writing systems and philosophers. In the primary lessons: In history lessons, classical antiquity means ancient Greece and Rome; museums show antiquities from Egypt, Greece, China and more. In news, stealing and selling antiquities is a crime, and some countries ask museums to return objects taken long ago.

### examples

- The Pythagorean philosophy is the greatest enigma of all philosophical systems of antiquity. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/antiquity/#x1)
- The purpose of the author was to e ..pliiisizc the superiority of alphabetic writing over the non-alphabetic writing (ideographic and syllabic) used by all the nations of antiquity, and even now by a great portion of mankind. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/antiquity/#x2)
- Is this your joyous city, whose feet in antiquity, in ancient days, carried her afar off to sojourn? (Prophets ISA.23.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/antiquity/#x3)
- The Pyramids were built in antiquity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/antiquity/#x4)
- The museum is full of Greek antiquities. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/antiquity/#x5)
- Roman roads survive from antiquity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/antiquity/#x6)
- The church is of great antiquity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/antiquity/#x7)
- Thieves smuggled antiquities out of the country. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/antiquity/#x8)
- Scholars study the writers of antiquity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/antiquity/#x9)
- The city of Athens especially contains numerous remains of these buildings of antiquity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/antiquity/#x10)

### note

Uncountable for the time period; countable (antiquities) for objects. Related: antique (old valuable object), ancient. A formal word.

### In the corpora

- [Is this your joyous city, whose feet in antiquity, in ancient days, carried her afar off to sojourn?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.475/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «antiquity» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/antiquity/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.