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   archaic

   /ɑːˈkeɪɪk/

   adjective

   • 1. very old or old-fashioned: "prisons are run on archaic methods"
   • ▪ (of a word or a style of language) no longer in everyday use but sometimes used to impart an old-fashioned flavour: "a term with a rather archaic ring to it"
   • ▪ of an early period of art or culture, especially the 7th–6th centuries bc in Greece: "the archaic temple at Corinth"

   Word Origin mid 19th century: from French archaïque, from Greek arkhaikos, from arkhaios, from arkhē ‘beginning’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. archaically adverb

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   What does archaic mean?

   • Note: In this dictionary the label archaic is affixed to words and senses relatively common in earlier times but infrequently used in present-day English. old, ancient, venerable, antique, antiquated, archaic, obsolete mean having come into existence or use in the more or less distant past.

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   What does arcaic mean?

   • ARCHAIC definition: 1. of or belonging to an ancient period in history: 2. extremely old-fashioned: 3. of or…. Learn more.

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   What are archaic words?

   • Archaic Proper – these are the words which are no longer being recognized in modern English. They are the words in Old English which are either completely dropped out of the language or have changed in their appearance and have become unrecognizeable. Historic words are being erroneously classified as archaic words.

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   What does archaic law mean?

   • The existing law is archaic. These archaic practices are advocated by people of limited outlook. Archaic means extremely old or extremely old-fashioned. ...archaic laws that are very seldom used. Read about the team of authors behind Collins Dictionaries.

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   The meaning of ARCHAIC is having the characteristics of the language of the past and surviving chiefly in specialized uses. How to use archaic in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Archaic.

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   Archaic definition: marked by the characteristics of an earlier period; antiquated. See examples of ARCHAIC used in a sentence.

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   adjective. 1. belonging to or characteristic of a much earlier period; ancient. 2. out of date; antiquated. an archaic prison system. 3. (of an idiom, vocabulary, etc) characteristic of an earlier period of a language and not in ordinary use. Collins English Dictionary.

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   The adjective archaic means something that belongs to an earlier or antiquated time. It can also mean something that is outdated but can still be found in the present and therefore could seem out of place.

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   1. belonging to or characteristic of a much earlier period; ancient. 2. out of date; antiquated: an archaic prison system. 3. (Linguistics) (of an idiom, vocabulary, etc) characteristic of an earlier period of a language and not in ordinary use.