EGAVE

classicism

About 0.88 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun All the classical traditions of the art and architecture of ancient Greece and Rome, especially the aspects of simplicity, elegance and proportion.
  2. noun Classical scholarship.
  3. noun A Latin or Ancient Greek expression used in an English sentence.

Similar words

classicist classic hellenism classical latin doric order latin atticism athenianism corinthian order palladianism

Often followed by

and of in was is to that as which

Word family

classicisms

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