antique

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of ANTIQUE

something belonging to or surviving from an earlier period <their house is filled with rare antiques, including a collection of 19th-century African masks>

Synonyms museum piece, relic

Related Words artifact, fossil; dinosaur; antiquities, ruins; hangover, remains, remnant, trace, vestige

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