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classic
  1. A perfect and/or early example of a particular style.
  2. An artistic work of lasting worth
  3. The author of such a work.
  4. A major, long-standing sporting event
  5. (dated) One learned in the literature of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome; a student of classical literature.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “Today, the painting is recognized as a classic that was far ahead of its time.”
      “This recipe is a classic of old Venetian cooking.”
      “As artists go, Picasso was certainly a classic of his time.”
classicism
  1. (uncountable) All the classical traditions of the art and architecture of ancient Greece and Rome, especially the aspects of simplicity, elegance and proportion.
  2. (uncountable) Classical scholarship.
  3. (countable) A Latin or Ancient Greek expression used in an English sentence.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “There was no simple retreat from austere aristocratic classicism to bourgeois romanticism.”
      “Much of contemporary architectural thinking is grounded in a polemic against modernism and even classicism.”
      “Likewise, in the Metamorphoses Ovid subverts the epic, the literary genre best suited to Augustus's program of cultural classicism.”
classics
  1. plural of classic
  2. Synonym of classical studies: the study of Ancient Greek and Latin, their literature, history etc.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “It's a surprisingly nice backdrop in which to enjoy Italian classics at bargain prices.”
      “In this category of minor classics are some books and authors who have truly ferocious secret admirers.”
      “The man is a walking encyclopedia, with vast knowledge of history, the classics, politics, and anything else one can possibly think of.”
classicist
  1. A classical scholar, especially one who studies ancient Greek and Latin language and culture.
  2. A follower of classicism.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “How could Milton the classicist, the tragedian, the epic writer, reject Plato, the Greek tragedians, and Homer himself?”
      “But she did ask that we not describe her as a classicist but now works in another field.”
      “The worldly, tough-minded economist has joined the other-worldly, woolly minded theologian or classicist in the literary repertoire.”
classicality
  1. (uncountable) The condition of being classical
  2. (physics) The degree to which a system or phenomenon may be explained by classical mechanics
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  4. Examples:
    1. “He postulates that complexity is the key to understanding the emergence of classicality.”
      “The black and white pictures on the wall emulate the sense of classicality.”
      “The correspondence principle must reflect emergent classicality if it is to be a viable principle, which means that the implicit assumption of reductionism in Ford's discussions of quantum chaology should be abandoned.”
classicalon
  1. (physics) An extended classical object, formed at high energy, that decays into various particle states.
classicalization
  1. (physics) the treatment of a quantum system in terms of classical statistical mechanics
classicalist
  1. One who adheres to what is classical, as for example in art.
classicization
  1. The process or result of classicizing.
classicalness
  1. The quality of being classical.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The classicalness of Mozart's symphonies is evident in their timeless melodies and harmonies.”
classick
  1. Obsolete form of classic.
classicalism
  1. classicism
  2. Examples:
    1. “Our oil paintings have different styles such as classicalism, impressionism and realism.”
      “Flaxman, to his credit, in spite of his classicalism, was one of the first to draw attention 32to the work.”
      “The United States, you imagine, would of all nations be the freest from classicalism.”
classicalisms
  1. plural of classicalism
classicalists
  1. plural of classicalist
classicalities
classicalons
  1. plural of classicalon
classicisms
classicists
  1. plural of classicist
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Even writers who wanted to be thought of as classicists usually needed a Latin crib to help them through Greek poetry in this period.”
      “More and more, there's been a change in attitude among classicists toward translation as a legitimate activity.”
      “The classicists must have been boring their mates with this fact every four years for as long as they could parse a sentence.”
classicks
  1. plural of classick
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