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archaic
That has ceased to be used except for special purposes, as in poetry, church ritual, etc.
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  1. That has ceased to be used except for special purposes, as in poetry, church ritual, etc.
  2. Relating to or being an early form of Homo sapiens or a closely related species, such as Neanderthal, that is anatomically distinct from modern humans.
  3. Belonging to an earlier period; ancient
ancient
Having existed a long time; very old
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  1. Having existed a long time; very old
  2. Of great age; very old:
  3. Of, relating to, or belonging to times long past, especially before the fall of the Western Roman Empire ( ad 476):
antique
Of, or in the style of, a former period
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  1. Of, or in the style of, a former period
  2. Belonging to, made in, or typical of an earlier period:
  3. Of or belonging to ancient times, especially of, from, or characteristic of ancient Greece or Rome.
antiquary
An antiquarian.
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  1. An antiquarian.
  2. A person who collects or studies relics and ancient works of art
collector
A person who collects stamps, books, etc. as a hobby
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  1. A person who collects stamps, books, etc. as a hobby
  2. A person whose work is collecting taxes, overdue bills, etc.
  3. An electrode collector.
savant
An idiot savant.
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  1. An idiot savant.
  2. A person with a severe developmental disorder or other major mental disability who possesses some remarkable aptitude, as for memorization, rapid mental calculation, art, or music
  3. A learned person; eminent scholar
archaeologist
Someone who is skilled, professes or practices archaeology.
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  1. Someone who is skilled, professes or practices archaeology.
anthropologist
One who is versed in anthropology.
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  1. One who is versed in anthropology.
  2. A person who specializes in anthropology
historian
One versed or well informed in history.
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  1. One versed or well informed in history.
  2. A scholar or writer of history.
medievalist
A person devoted to medieval customs, beliefs, etc.
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  1. A person devoted to medieval customs, beliefs, etc.
  2. A connoisseur of medieval culture.
  3. A student of or specialist in medieval history, literature, art, etc.
classicist
One who advocates the teaching of Greek and Latin in the schools
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  1. One who advocates the teaching of Greek and Latin in the schools
  2. An advocate of the principles of classicism
  3. A student of or specialist in ancient Greek and Roman literature, art, and culture; a classical scholar
archaist
A person who studies archaic things; an antiquary
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  1. A person who studies archaic things; an antiquary
  2. A person who uses archaisms in language
bibliophile
One who obsessively collects books, not necessarily due to any interest in reading them.
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  1. One who obsessively collects books, not necessarily due to any interest in reading them.
  2. A collector of books
  3. A person who loves or admires books, esp. for their style of binding, printing, etc.
archivist
A person having charge of archives
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  1. A person having charge of archives
  2. One who is in charge of, or performs the task of creating, collecting, cataloguing, and organising, archives.
curator
(Civil Law) A guardian, as of a minor
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  1. (Civil Law) A guardian, as of a minor
  2. One who manages or oversees, as the administrative director of a museum collection or a library.
  3. A person in charge of a formal collection or exhibition, as at a museum or zoo
Find another word for antiquarian. In this page you can discover 19 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for antiquarian, like: archaic, ancient, antique, antiquary, student of antiquity, collector, savant, archaeologist, anthropologist, historian and paleologist.

Sentence Examples

  • There are antiquarian remains (cromlechs, stone circles and the like) at Slievemore and elsewhere.

  • Rawlinson's Natural History and Antiquities of Surrey (1719); his antiquarian notes on Wiltshire were printed in Wiltshire; the Topographical Collections of John Aubrey, corrected and enlarged by J.

  • Nabonidus, in fact, had excited a strong feeling against himself by attempting to centralize the religion of Babylonia in the temple of Merodach (Marduk) at Babylon, and while he had thus alienated the local priesthoods the military party despised him on account of his antiquarian tastes.

  • The most important of the antiquarian remains are the ruins of the famous castle situated on a rocky height, originally covering with its precincts an area of over 8 acres, and containing in all eight round towers.

  • It is replete with interest for the antiquarian.

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