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What does neoclassical mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word neoclassical? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Of pertaining to a style of architecture based on classical models, especially such a style of the 18th century.
  2. Of or relating to various art styles, as in sculpture and ballet, inspired by older classical forms and conventions.
  3. (linguistics) Being a recent construction based on older, classical elements.
  4. (economics) Of or relating to an approach that focuses on the determination of prices, outputs, and income distributions in markets through supply and demand.
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Small ovoid and elliptical silver baskets were made in the neoclassical style to hold sugar as part of the tea service.
Their characterization of the neoclassical model approach to rural development is far too narrow.
In most overseas countries the ideology of fundamentalist neoclassical economics has been thrown out.
At this point, neorealism returns full circle to neoclassical abstraction and its generalizing quality.
But consider this remark by an economist who is the exemplar of a puristic form of neoclassical economics, Robert Lucas.
Despite its rather insubstantial construction, the basket weighs thirty troy ounces and presages the simple elegance of the neoclassical style.

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