[an-teek] 
adjective, noun, verb, -tiqued, -ti⋅quing.| 1. | of or belonging to the past; not modern. |
| 2. | dating from a period long ago: antique furniture. |
| 3. | noting or pertaining to automobiles approximately 25 years old or more. |
| 4. | in the tradition, fashion, or style of an earlier period; old-fashioned; antiquated. |
| 5. | of or belonging to the ancient Greeks and Romans. |
| 6. | (of paper) neither calendered nor coated and having a rough surface. |
| 7. | ancient. |
| 8. | any work of art, piece of furniture, decorative object, or the like, created or produced in a former period, or, according to U.S. customs laws, 100 years before date of purchase. |
| 9. | the antique style, usually Greek or Roman, esp. in art. |
| 10. | Printing. a style of type. |
| 11. | to make or finish (something, esp. furniture) in imitation of antiques. |
| 12. | to emboss (an image, design, letters, or the like) on paper or fabric. |
| 13. | to shop for or collect antiques: She spent her vacation antiquing in Boston. |
| an·tique (ān-tēk') adj.
v. tr. To give the appearance of an antique to: antiqued an oak chest. v. intr. To hunt or shop for antiques. [French, from Latin antīquus; see ant- in Indo-European roots.] an·tique'ly adv., an·tique'ness n. |
antique
a relic or old object having aesthetic, historic, and financial value. Formerly, it referred only to the remains of the classical cultures of Greece and Rome; gradually, decorative arts-courtly, bourgeois, and peasant-of all past eras and places came to be considered antique.
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