Antiquarian Definition

ăntĭ-kwârē-ən
antiquarians
noun
antiquarians
One who studies, collects, or deals in antiquities.
American Heritage
An antiquary.
Webster's New World

A collector, student or expert of antiquities or antiques.

Wiktionary
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adjective
Of or relating to antiquarians or to the study or collecting of antiquities.
American Heritage
Of antiques or antiquities.
Webster's New World
Dealing in or having to do with old or rare books.
American Heritage
Of antiquaries.
Webster's New World
Of, or dealing in, old books.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Antiquarian

Noun

Singular:
antiquarian
Plural:
antiquarians

Origin of Antiquarian

Antiquarian Sentence Examples

  • There are antiquarian remains (cromlechs, stone circles and the like) at Slievemore and elsewhere.

  • It is replete with interest for the antiquarian.

  • The most important of the antiquarian remains are the ruins of the famous castle situated on a rocky height, originally covering with its precincts an area of over 8 acres, and containing in all eight round towers.

  • The Danish antiquarian Rafn, in his monumental Antiquitates Ainericanae, published in 1837, and much discussed in America at that time, held for Rhode Island as Leif's landfall and the locality of Thorfinn's colony.

  • In this work,, with a true insight into the relative importance of things, he passed over with a few strong broad touches the antiquarian discussions on the origins of the city, on which previous historians.

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