"antiquedom" meaning in English

See antiquedom in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Etymology: From antique + -dom. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|antique|dom}} antique + -dom Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} antiquedom (uncountable)
  1. (rare, colloquial) The world of antiques or of things old; antiquity. Tags: colloquial, rare, uncountable Related terms: antiquehood
    Sense id: en-antiquedom-en-noun-l3R0tBbx

Download JSON data for antiquedom meaning in English (2.0kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "antique",
        "3": "dom"
      },
      "expansion": "antique + -dom",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From antique + -dom.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "antiquedom (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1915, Life",
          "text": "The exotic atmosphere of the whole queer underworld of antiquedom and of collector-cranks spicily pervades the hook. Yet this, after all, is but the sauce of the dish. The viand itself is the exasperating yet lovable humanness of humanity.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1935, The Magazine Antiques",
          "text": "To such folk as qualify in the class of small collectors I recommend excursions into the obscure bypaths of antiquedom.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1980, Ernie Pyle, Images of Brown County",
          "text": "He really doesn't care much aboutthe furniture in his house. It is not the possession of antiques that fascinates him, but the routing out, the discovering, the acquiring. And every now and then he branches off into some other form of antiquedom.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1990, John Carmody, Roman Catholicism: An Introduction",
          "text": "Without them, Christianity could not be, Catholicism would shrivel into antiquedom.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Leonard I. Sweet, 11 Genetic Gateways to Spiritual Awakening",
          "text": "Why is a watch that does nothing but keep time an endangered species, doomed to antiquedom? Why is the Dick Tracy watch already here?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The world of antiques or of things old; antiquity."
      ],
      "id": "en-antiquedom-en-noun-l3R0tBbx",
      "links": [
        [
          "world",
          "world"
        ],
        [
          "antique",
          "antique"
        ],
        [
          "antiquity",
          "antiquity"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare, colloquial) The world of antiques or of things old; antiquity."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "antiquehood"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "rare",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "antiquedom"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "antique",
        "3": "dom"
      },
      "expansion": "antique + -dom",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From antique + -dom.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "antiquedom (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "antiquehood"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with rare senses",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1915, Life",
          "text": "The exotic atmosphere of the whole queer underworld of antiquedom and of collector-cranks spicily pervades the hook. Yet this, after all, is but the sauce of the dish. The viand itself is the exasperating yet lovable humanness of humanity.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1935, The Magazine Antiques",
          "text": "To such folk as qualify in the class of small collectors I recommend excursions into the obscure bypaths of antiquedom.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1980, Ernie Pyle, Images of Brown County",
          "text": "He really doesn't care much aboutthe furniture in his house. It is not the possession of antiques that fascinates him, but the routing out, the discovering, the acquiring. And every now and then he branches off into some other form of antiquedom.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1990, John Carmody, Roman Catholicism: An Introduction",
          "text": "Without them, Christianity could not be, Catholicism would shrivel into antiquedom.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Leonard I. Sweet, 11 Genetic Gateways to Spiritual Awakening",
          "text": "Why is a watch that does nothing but keep time an endangered species, doomed to antiquedom? Why is the Dick Tracy watch already here?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The world of antiques or of things old; antiquity."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "world",
          "world"
        ],
        [
          "antique",
          "antique"
        ],
        [
          "antiquity",
          "antiquity"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare, colloquial) The world of antiques or of things old; antiquity."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "rare",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "antiquedom"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-03-12 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-03-01 using wiktextract (68773ab and 5f6ddbb). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.