archaic

Pluralarchaics

1. 1
   out of dateadjective

   Very old, from a time long ago, or so old-fashioned that it seems out of date.

   The office still uses an archaic computer system that crashes every week.

   Some of the school's dress rules seem archaic to the students.

   UsageUsually negative, often used for laws, rules, or traditions that seem too old for today.

   Similarantiquated, outdated, old-fashioned, outmoded, obsolete

   Oppositemodern, contemporary

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2. 2
   old wordsadjective

   Describes a word no longer in everyday use but still understood, found in old books, and sometimes used to sound old.

   The poem uses archaic words to sound like a story from long ago.

   Our teacher explained the archaic words before we read the play.

   Similarantiquated, old-fashioned

   Oppositemodern

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   adjective

   From or belonging to the time that archaeologists call the archaic period.

   On the museum's timeline, the archaic tools come after the Paleo-Indian ones and before the Woodland ones.

   These archaic statues were made long before the classical ones in the next room.

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   time period (Americas)nounUS

   In the Americas, the time long ago after the first people arrived and before later times such as the Woodland.

   People in the Archaic lived by hunting animals and gathering plants.

   The museum has a whole room of stone tools from the Archaic.

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   early humannouncountable

   An early type of human from long ago, or one person of that type.

   Scientists think the skull in the cave belonged to an archaic who lived there long ago.

   Archaics lived in this area long before modern people arrived.

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