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# antiquity

«antiquity» in Mova's school 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/school/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/school/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/school/A/antiquity/#m3)

### sense in the 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 Pyramids were built in antiquity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/antiquity/#x1)
- The museum is full of Greek antiquities. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/antiquity/#x2)
- Roman roads survive from antiquity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/antiquity/#x3)
- The church is of great antiquity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/antiquity/#x4)
- Thieves smuggled antiquities out of the country. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/antiquity/#x5)
- Scholars study the writers of antiquity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/antiquity/#x6)
- The city of Athens especially contains numerous remains of these buildings of antiquity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/antiquity/#x7)

### 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/school/A/antiquity/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.