archaic

Etymology
From or from, ultimately from , from , from , from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1)  The prehistoric period intermediate between the earliest period (‘’, ‘Paleo-American’, ‘American‐paleolithic’, etc.) of human presence in the Western Hemisphere, and the most recent prehistoric period (‘Woodland’, etc.).
 * 2) * 1958, Wiley, Gordon R., and Philip Phillips, Method and Theory in American Archaeology, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, page #107:
 * [...] Archaic Stage [...] the stage of migratory hunting and gathering cultures continuing into environmental conditions approximately those of the present.
 * 1)  (A member of) an archaic variety of Homo sapiens.

Adjective

 * 1) Of or characterized by antiquity; old-fashioned, quaint, antiquated.
 * 2)  No longer in ordinary use, though still used occasionally to give a sense of antiquity and are still likely to be understood by well-educated speakers and are found in historical texts.
 * 3)  Belonging to the archaic period.
 * 1)  No longer in ordinary use, though still used occasionally to give a sense of antiquity and are still likely to be understood by well-educated speakers and are found in historical texts.
 * 2)  Belonging to the archaic period.
 * 1)  No longer in ordinary use, though still used occasionally to give a sense of antiquity and are still likely to be understood by well-educated speakers and are found in historical texts.
 * 2)  Belonging to the archaic period.
 * 1)  Belonging to the archaic period.
 * 1)  Belonging to the archaic period.
 * 1)  Belonging to the archaic period.
 * 1)  Belonging to the archaic period.
 * 1)  Belonging to the archaic period.

Usage notes

 * Although sense 2 pertains to words, when the word archaic is used by non-lexicographers to describe a word or its usage, it is likely meant in the more general sense 1. Some dictionaries mark words that are archaic in this sense with a term such as dated or old-fashioned (the exact terminology varies). When a dictionary describes a word as archaic, it is meant in the more specific sense 2 (see also Obsolete_and_archaic_terms).

Synonyms

 * ,, ; see also Thesaurus:obsolete

Related terms

 * ("paleobotany", "archeobotany", etc.)
 * horizon, stage
 * culture
 * ("paleobotany", "archeobotany", etc.)
 * horizon, stage
 * culture

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Azerbaijani: arxaik
 * Belarusian: архаі́чны
 * Bulgarian:, ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 古舊的, 古老的, 過時的
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, fortidig, arkaisk
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ძველი, ძველთაძველი, არქაული
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: ársa
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean: 고대적(古代的)
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: veclaicīgs
 * Macedonian: архаичен
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: arkaisk, ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: àrsaidh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: арха̀ичан
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: archaický
 * Slovene: arhaični
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:, arkaistinen
 * Georgian: არქაული
 * Greek: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Swedish:, ,