Archaism

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An archaic word, phrase, idiom, or other expression.
  • n. An archaic style, quality, or usage.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The adoption or imitation of archaic words or style.
  • n. An archaic word, style, etc.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An ancient, antiquated, or old-fashioned, word, expression, or idiom; a word or form of speech no longer in common use.
  • n. Antiquity of style or use; obsoleteness.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The adoption or imitation of that which is antiquated or out of use; especially, the use of archaic words or fòrms of speech.
  • n. The quality of being archaic; antiquity of style, manner, or use, as in art or literature; especially, in art, the appearance of traces of the imperfect conception or unskilful handling of tools and material belonging to an art before the time of its highest development. See the archaic, under archaic.
  • n. That which is archaic; especially, an antiquated or obsolete word, expression, pronunciation, or idiom.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the use of an archaic expression
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    expression    formulation   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    obsoleteness   
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