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English Dictionary: Archaic by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
archaic
adj
  1. so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period; "a ramshackle antediluvian tenement"; "antediluvian ideas"; "archaic laws"
    Synonym(s): antediluvian, antiquated, archaic
  2. little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type; "archaic forms of life"; "primitive mammals"; "the okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe"
    Synonym(s): archaic, primitive
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Archaic \Ar*cha"ic\, a. [Gr. 'archai:ko`s old-fashioned, fr.
      'archai^os ancient.]
      Of or characterized by antiquity or archaism; antiquated;
      obsolescent.
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