Get to know Antiquarian better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like expert or antiquity.
Antiquarian meaning
Pertaining to antiquaries, or to antiquity.
Using Antiquarian
- The main meaning on this page is: Pertaining to antiquaries, or to antiquity.
- Useful related words include: expert, antiquity, antiquary, archaist.
- In the example corpus, antiquarian often appears in combinations such as: and antiquarian, the antiquarian, american antiquarian.
Context around Antiquarian
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 8 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Antiquarian
- In this selection, "antiquarian" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, american, international, naturalist, book, books and bookseller stand out and add context to how "antiquarian" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include the american antiquarian society in and 1732 the antiquarian francis peck. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "antiquarian" sits close to words such as acadiana, adjoint and affixes, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with antiquarian
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Gabriel Books – Antiquarian: 21 Market St. (6 words)
Her father is an author, editor, publisher, and antiquarian bookseller. (10 words)
Accordingly, he is known as the originator of the "antiquarian ghost story". (12 words)
With the help of his friend, antiquarian Arthur Burrell, Lister broke her cipher by candlelight and was astonished to discover ‘an intimate account of the lesbian practices among Miss Lister and her many “friends”; hardly any one of them escaped her’. (41 words)
Ungar, a former rabbi and antiquarian book dealer, first saw Szyk’s work in 1975 when he came upon one of the artist’s rare illustrated Haggadah, the book Jews read from on Passover. (34 words)
Boatwright, 134 This was a way of gathering legitimacy to Roman imperial rule by associating it to the glories of classical Greece – something well in line with contemporary antiquarian taste in cultural matters. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
This is an old-school secondhand and antiquarian bookshop with plenty of rooms to explore.
Cummins is handling the sale, which will take place this weekend at the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair.
He became an amateur historian, a genealogist, archaeologist, naturalist, antiquarian, art-collector, a noted architectural historian.
Ungar, a former rabbi and antiquarian book dealer, first saw Szyk’s work in 1975 when he came upon one of the artist’s rare illustrated Haggadah, the book Jews read from on Passover.
His bookstore business at first offered all kinds of books, before he began specializing in antiquarian books and Prairie Canadiana.
Ian Mitchell will present his talk, entitled The Russian Clearances – rural Russia, past and present, to the Kintyre Antiquarian and Natural History Society’s next meeting.
It occupies what was, for 140 years, the antiquarian bookseller Gonnelli, just behind the duomo.
Gabriel Books – Antiquarian: 21 Market St.
With the help of his friend, antiquarian Arthur Burrell, Lister broke her cipher by candlelight and was astonished to discover ‘an intimate account of the lesbian practices among Miss Lister and her many “friends”; hardly any one of them escaped her’.
Accordingly, he is known as the originator of the "antiquarian ghost story".
Antiquarian interest was intensified following the publication of Flaubert's Salammbô in 1858.
As often happens in archaeological terminology, this is a holdover from antiquarian use, and Stonehenge is not truly a henge site as its bank is inside its ditch.
At the same time, he neglected neither philological nor geographical, historical nor antiquarian material, to all of which he devoted numerous excursus.
Boatwright, 134 This was a way of gathering legitimacy to Roman imperial rule by associating it to the glories of classical Greece – something well in line with contemporary antiquarian taste in cultural matters.
British antiquarian William Thoms is generally credited with coining the term "folklore" in 1846. citation Elliott Oring states that folklore is that part of culture that "lives happily ever after".
For example, in 1732, the antiquarian Francis Peck published in Desiderata Curiosa a list of documents in his possession that he intended to print someday.
Fulton was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1814. citation Fulton died in 1815 in New York City from tuberculosis (then known as "consumption").
He left his bookshop in care of his brother, and prepared to sail to England to buy more antiquarian books.
Hellman, 87. Irving was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1815.
Her father is an author, editor, publisher, and antiquarian bookseller.
Common combinations with antiquarian
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: