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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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Because figureheads were intended to lead the ship onward in a rush of motion, neoclassical figures, in the final analysis, were not compatible.
There's the neoclassical dining room with its frescoes depicting the country house of the palazzo's previous owners, the Baglioni family.
Slipped into an inner courtyard, it is cool, modernist, yet residually neoclassical in mood, and hugely successful.
Well, I mostly prefer the neoclassical composers, but occasionally one of the Eastern Greco-Romanic harmonists produces some good stuff.
At this point, neorealism returns full circle to neoclassical abstraction and its generalizing quality.
Their characterization of the neoclassical model approach to rural development is far too narrow.

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