the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Belonging to, or designating, the modern revival or adaptation of classical, esp. Greco-Roman, style, taste and manner of work in architecture, arts, literature, etc.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Noting any phase of modern civilization which is based on principles or practices developed during the period of Greek and Roman antiquity. It is especially applicable to resemblances between modern and ancient art. See neo-Greek.
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adj. characteristic of a revival of an earlier classical style
Word Usage
"-- Callimachus, more erudite, more scholastic, was what is termed a neoclassic, which is that he desired to treat in a new way the same subjects that had been dealt with by the great men of ancient"