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# archaic

«archaic» in Mova's school dictionary: **Very old and from the distant past** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (archaic, more archaic, most archaic)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Very old and from the distant past. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/archaic/#m1)

2) Old-fashioned and no longer used, or too old to be useful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/archaic/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In English lessons: archaic words like "thou", "thee" and "hath" in old texts. In everyday talk: archaic rules or computers (too old). In history: archaic times. Phrases: archaic language, archaic word, archaic system.

### examples

- "Thou" is an archaic word for "you". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/archaic/#x1)
- Shakespeare's plays have many archaic words. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/archaic/#x2)
- The school's computers are archaic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/archaic/#x3)
- That rule seems archaic now. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/archaic/#x4)
- Archaic rocks contain some of the oldest life on Earth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/archaic/#x5)
- Grandpa uses some archaic phrases. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/archaic/#x6)
- This is indeed an archaic touch, which seems to hark back to primitive times and totemistic beliefs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/archaic/#x7)

### note

Pronounced ar-KAY-ik. Dictionaries mark old words "archaic". Synonyms: ancient, old-fashioned, outdated.

### Trees and pragmatics

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