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adjective
1.
of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Greek and Roman antiquity: classical literature; classical languages.
2.
conforming to ancient Greek and Roman models in literature or art, or to later systems modeled upon them.
3.
marked by classicism: classical simplicity.
4.
Music.
a.
of, pertaining to, or constituting the formally and artistically more sophisticated and enduring types of music, as distinguished from popular and folk music and jazz. Classical music includes symphonies, operas, sonatas, song cycles, and lieder.
b.
of, pertaining to, characterized by, or adhering to the well-ordered, chiefly homophonic musical style of the latter half of the 18th and the early 19th centuries: Haydn and Mozart are classical composers.
5.
EXPANDArchitecture.
a.
noting or pertaining to the architecture of ancient Greece and Rome, especially the religious and public architecture, characterized by the employment of orders. Compare order (def. 27b).
b.
noting or pertaining to any of several styles of architecture closely imitating the architecture of ancient Greece or Rome; neoclassic.
c.
noting or pertaining to architectural details or motifs adapted from ancient Greek or Roman models.
d.
(of an architectural design) simple, reposeful, well-proportioned, or symmetrical in a manner suggesting the architecture of ancient Greece and Rome.
6.
(often initial capital letter) pertaining to or designating the style of fine arts, especially painting and sculpture, developed in Greece during the 5th and 4th centuries b.c., chiefly characterized by balanced composition, the separation of figures from an architectural background, and the naturalistic rendering of anatomical details, spatial movement, and distribution of weight in a figure. Compare archaic (def. 4), Hellenistic (def. 5).
7.
of or pertaining to a style of literature and art characterized by conformity to established treatments, taste, or critical standards, and by attention to form with the general effect of regularity, simplicity, balance, proportion, and controlled emotion (contrasted with romantic).
8.
pertaining to or versed in the ancient classics: a classical scholar.
9.
relating to or teaching academic branches of knowledge, as the humanities, general sciences, etc., as distinguished from technical subjects.
10.
(of a given field of knowledge) accepted as standard and authoritative, as distinguished from novel or experimental: classical physics.
11.
classic (defs. 1–5, 8, 10).
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COLLAPSEEcclesiastical. pertaining to a classis.
noun
13.
classical music: a jazz pianist who studied classical for years.
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Related forms
clas·si·cal·i·ty, clas·si·cal·ness, noun
clas·si·cal·ly, adverb
an·ti·clas·si·cal, adjective
an·ti·clas·si·cal·ly, adverb
an·ti·clas·si·cal·ness, noun
EXPANDhy·per·clas·si·cal, adjective
hy·per·clas·si·cal·i·ty, noun
non·clas·si·cal·i·ty, noun
pre·clas·si·cal, adjective
pre·clas·si·cal·ly, adverb
pro·clas·si·cal, adjective
qua·si-clas·si·cal·ly, adverb
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| classical (ˈklæsɪkəl) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | of, relating to, or characteristic of the ancient Greeks and Romans or their civilization, esp in the period of their ascendancy |
| 2. | designating, following, or influenced by the art or culture of ancient Greece or Rome: classical architecture |
| 3. | music |
| a. Compare romantic of, relating to, or denoting any music or its period of composition marked by stability of form, intellectualism, and restraint | |
| b. accepted as a standard: the classical suite | |
| c. Compare pop denoting serious art music in general | |
| 4. | music of or relating to a style of music composed, esp at Vienna, during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This period is marked by the establishment, esp by Haydn and Mozart, of sonata form |
| 5. | See classicism denoting or relating to a style in any of the arts characterized by emotional restraint and conservatism: a classical style of painting |
| 6. | well versed in the art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome |
| 7. | (of an education) based on the humanities and the study of Latin and Greek |
| 8. | physics |
| a. not involving the quantum theory or the theory of relativity: classical mechanics | |
| b. obeying the laws of Newtonian mechanics or 19th-century physics: a classical gas | |
| 9. | classic another word for classic |
| 10. | (of a logical or mathematical system) according with the law of excluded middle, so that every statement is known to be either true or false even if it is not known which |
| classi'cality | |
| —n | |
| 'classicalness | |
| —n | |
| 'classically | |
| —adv | |
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