Associations to the word «Archaic»
Noun
- Shamanism
- Gatherer
- Homo
- Ecstasy
- Spelling
- Bce
- Dialect
- Classical
- Aphrodite
- Period
- Primitive
- Hera
- Idiom
- Artemis
- Athena
- Corinth
- Woodland
- Pronunciation
- Vase
- Iliad
- Pottery
- Bc
- Vocabulary
- Orthography
- Greece
- Artifact
- Pronoun
- Plural
- Poseidon
- Eros
- Myth
- Verb
- Chaucer
- Triad
- Alphabet
- Prehistory
- Archaeologist
- Inscription
- Cult
- Unicode
- Ceramic
- Excavation
- Javanese
- Habitation
- Globalization
- Singular
- Lettering
- Herodotus
- Mound
- Suffix
- Sanskrit
- Hebrew
- Ritual
- Terminology
- Sculpture
- Usage
- Earthwork
- Antiquity
- Zeus
Adjective
- Hellenistic
- Projectile
- Proto
- Obsolete
- Middle
- Prehistoric
- Athenian
- Vedic
- Lao
- Plural
- Classical
- Primordial
- Greek
- Mythic
- Attested
- Poetic
- Archeological
- Formative
- Archaeological
- Grammatical
- Dynastic
- Pleistocene
- Quaint
- Slovene
- Mythical
- Slavic
- Primitive
- Adjective
- Phonological
- Lexical
- Venerated
- Semitic
- Lyric
- Ritual
- Patriarchal
- Germanic
- Hellenic
- Mythological
Verb
Wiktionary
ARCHAIC, noun. (archaeology) (US) (usually capitalized) A general term for the prehistoric period intermediate between the earliest period (‘[1]’, ‘Paleo-American’, ‘American‐paleolithic’, &c.) of human presence in the Western Hemisphere, and the most recent prehistoric period (‘Woodland’, etc.).
ARCHAIC, noun. (paleoanthropology) (A member of) an archaic variety of Homo sapiens.
ARCHAIC, adjective. Of or characterized by antiquity; old-fashioned, quaint, antiquated.
ARCHAIC, adjective. (of words) No longer in ordinary use, though still used occasionally to give a sense of antiquity.
ARCHAIC, adjective. (archaeology) Belonging to the archaic period
ARCHAIC LATIN, proper noun. Synonym of Old Latin.
Dictionary definition
ARCHAIC, adjective. So extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period; "a ramshackle antediluvian tenement"; "antediluvian ideas"; "archaic laws".
ARCHAIC, adjective. Little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type; "archaic forms of life"; "primitive mammals"; "the okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe".
Wise words
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and
principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles
of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even
the interpretation and use of words involves a process of
free creation.