Antiquity

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Old age.

II. Antiquity ·noun An old gentleman.

III. Antiquity ·noun The ancients; the people of ancient times.

IV. Antiquity ·noun Ancient times; former ages; times long since past; as, Cicero was an eloquent orator of antiquity.

V. Antiquity ·noun The quality of being ancient; ancientness; great age; as, a statue of remarkable antiquity; a family of great antiquity.

VI. Antiquity ·noun A relic or monument of ancient times; as, a coin, a statue, ·etc.; an ancient institution. [In this sense, usually in the plural.].