classical
English
/ˈklæsɪkl̩/
adj
Definitions
- Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.
- Of or pertaining to established principles in a discipline.
- (music) Describing European music and musicians of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
- (informal) Describing art music (rather than pop, jazz, blues, etc), especially when played using instruments of the orchestra.
- Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks and Romans, especially to Greek or Roman authors of the highest rank, or of the period when their best literature was produced; of or pertaining to places inhabited by the ancient Greeks and Romans, or rendered famous by their deeds.
- Conforming to the best authority in literature and art; chaste; pure; refined
- (physics) Pertaining to models of physical laws that do not take quantum or relativistic effects into account; Newtonian or Maxwellian.
Etymology
Derived from Latin classicus (especially the highest, relating to the classes of Roman citizenry, of the class).
Origin
Latin
classicus
Gloss
especially the highest, relating to the classes of Roman citizenry, of the class
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Arabic English
- Classical Arabic English
- anteclassical English
- anteclassically English
- anticlassical English
- classical music English
- classicalism English
- classicalist English
- classicality English
- classicalization English
- classicalize English
- classically English
- classicalness English
- classicalon English
- epiclassical English
- extraclassical English
- music English
- neoclassical English
- neoclassicalism English
- neoclassically English
- nonclassical English
- nonclassicality English
- nonclassically English
- paleoclassical English
- postclassical English
- postclassically English
- preclassical English
- pseudoclassical English
- quasiclassical English
- semiclassical English
- semiclassicality English
- semiclassically English
- superclassical English
- unclassical English
- unclassically English
- klassikko Finnish
- classicus Latin
- classis Latin
- Klassiker German
- klassisch German
- klasszikus Hungarian
- classico Italian
- classicus Dutch, Flemish
- klassiek Dutch, Flemish
- classique French
- кла́ссик Russian
- классик Russian
- klassisk Norwegian Bokmål
- clássico Portuguese
- klassisk Swedish
- klassisk Norwegian Nynorsk
- klasický Czech
- music
- Arabic
- unclassical
- classically
- classicalon
- classicalism
- classicality
- classicalist
- neoclassical
- preclassical
- epiclassical
- nonclassical
- classicalize
- unclassically
- anteclassical
- postclassical
- semiclassical
- classicalness
- anticlassical
- neoclassically
- extraclassical
- paleoclassical
- quasiclassical
- nonclassically
- superclassical
- pseudoclassical
- neoclassicalism
- postclassically
- nonclassicality
- anteclassically
- classical music
- semiclassically
- Classical Arabic
- classicalization
- semiclassicality