antiquary
Americannoun
plural
antiquaries-
an expert on or student of antiquities.
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a collector of antiquities.
noun
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Also called: antiquarian. a person who collects, deals in, or studies antiques, ancient works of art, or ancient times
Etymology
Origin of antiquary
1555–65; < Latin antīquārius a student of the past, equivalent to antīqu ( us ) ancient, old ( antique ) + -ārius -ary
Example Sentences
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James, the English antiquary and ghost-story writer, to whose work I am devoted.
From Washington Post • Aug. 24, 2021
Yet Irwin is hardly a dry-as-dust antiquary, and “Wonders Will Never Cease” frequently reveals the wide range of his reading: His description of the world’s end was obviously adapted from H.G.
From Washington Post • Dec. 27, 2017
Hingley writes of the 19th-century Newcastle antiquary John Clayton, who bought as much as he could of the land through which Hadrian's wall ran, and rebuilt tracts of it.
From The Guardian • Feb. 15, 2013
Among the many strange sights that evening were parliamentary records being flung from windows, while the antiquary Thomas Phillipps ran about picking them up from the cobbles.
From The Guardian • Oct. 5, 2012
Rev. Morris Williams, a celebrated Welsh antiquary, was born on the 2nd of March, 1685, in the parish of Cellan, Cardiganshire, and was the son of the Rev. Samuel Williams, vicar of Llandifriog.
From A Biographical Sketch of some of the Most Eminent Individuals which the Principality of Wales has produced since the Reformation by Williams, Robert
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