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classical

Academic Word List, sublist 7.

About 30.46 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.
  2. adjective Of or pertaining to established principles in a discipline.
  3. adjective Describing Western music and musicians of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  4. adjective Describing art music (rather than pop, jazz, blues, etc), especially when played using instruments of the orchestra.
  5. adjective Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks and Romans, especially to Greek or Roman authors of the highest rank, or of the period when their best literature was produced; of or pertaining to places inhabited by the ancient Greeks and Romans, or rendered famous by their deeds.
  6. adjective Knowledgeable or skilled in the classics; versed in the classics.
    a classical scholar
  7. adjective Conforming to the best authority in literature and art; chaste; pure; refined
    classical dance
  8. adjective Pertaining to models of physical laws that do not take quantum or relativistic effects into account; Newtonian or Maxwellian.

Similar words

classic neoclassic neoclassical standard authoritative definitive hellenic greco-roman classics traditional

Often followed by

and music theory conditioning antiquity literature period tradition studies greek

Word family

classic classics

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