archaic
pronunciation
How to pronounce archaic in British English:
UK [ɑːˈkeɪɪk]
How to pronounce archaic in American English:
US [ɑːrˈkeɪɪk]
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- Adjective:
- so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
- little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type
Word Origin
- archaic
- archaic: see archives
- archaic (adj.)
- 1810, from or by influence of French archaique (1776), ultimately from Greek arkhaikos "old-fashioned," from arkhaios "ancient," from arkhe "beginning" (see archon). Archaical is attested from 1799.
Example
- 1. But this archaic system may be poised to change .
- 2. The marxist terminology of bourgeois and proletarian has an archaic ring .
- 3. The script is derived from the phoenician alphabet and the dialect is an archaic form of aramaic .
- 4. The analysis adds new twists to prevailing notions about archaic human history .
- 5. Others warn that sunburst 's requirements can be avoided by such archaic practices as talking in person or by phone rather than by e-mail .