What's the difference between ANCIENT & ANTIQUE?

Answer 1

Ancient is a photo of Cherie Blair,,and antique is something you stand the photo on

Answer 2

Good question, interesting, a bit like a antiques in an antique shop don't have to come from antiquity. Antique is associated with not modern, antiquity the ancient. Ancient is associated with an epoch (antiquity) Greece/Italy.

Answer 3

ANCIENT
–adjective
1. of or in time long past, esp. before the end of the Western Roman Empire a.d. 476: ancient history.
2. dating from a remote period; of great age: ancient rocks; ancient trees.
3. very old; aged: an ancient folk tale.
4. being old in wisdom and experience; venerable.
5. old-fashioned or antique.
–noun
6. a person who lived in ancient times.
7. one of the classical writers of antiquity.
8. a very old or aged person, esp. if venerable or patriarchal.

ANTIQUE
–adjective 1. of or belonging to the past; not modern.
2. dating from a period long ago: antique furniture.
3. noting or pertaining to automobiles approximately 25 years old or more.
4. in the tradition, fashion, or style of an earlier period; old-fashioned; antiquated.
5. of or belonging to the ancient Greeks and Romans.
6. (of paper) neither calendered nor coated and having a rough surface.

Answer 4

Antique refers to items, usually of some value, that are from the recent past. 20+ year old cars or 50+ year old furniture for example. Ancient refers to much older things, and not necessarily with any emphasis on their monetary value. Ancient subjects are more appreciated for their historic value, and their place in history is often talked about with reverence.

Answer 5

Antique has a more positive connotation. It is old, but its oldness is part of what makes it valuable. Ancient is just old. (And generally, ancient is much older than antique.)

Answer 6

From what I know, an antique is an object that is more than 100 years old and ancient is anything that is more than 500 years old.

Answer 7

The distinction comes from the age of the object : usually an object becomes "antique" when it is 100 years old.

Answer 8

Ancient
1. of or in time long past, esp. before the end of the Western Roman Empire a.d. 476: ancient history.
2. dating from a remote period; of great age: ancient rocks; ancient trees.
3. very old; aged: an ancient folk tale.
4. being old in wisdom and experience; venerable.
5. old-fashioned or antique.
–noun 6. a person who lived in ancient times.
7. one of the classical writers of antiquity.
8. a very old or aged person, esp. if venerable or patriarchal.
9. ancients, a. the civilized peoples, nations, or cultures of antiquity, as the Greeks, Romans, Hebrews, and Egyptians (usually prec. by the).
b. the writers, artists, and philosophers of ancient times, esp. those of Greece and Rome.

Antique
1. of or belonging to the past; not modern.
2. dating from a period long ago: antique furniture.
3. noting or pertaining to automobiles approximately 25 years old or more.
4. in the tradition, fashion, or style of an earlier period; old-fashioned; antiquated.
5. of or belonging to the ancient Greeks and Romans.
6. (of paper) neither calendered nor coated and having a rough surface.
7. ancient.
8. any work of art, piece of furniture, decorative object, or the like, created or produced in a former period, or, according to U.S. customs laws, 100 years before date of purchase.
9. the antique style, usually Greek or Roman, esp. in art.
10. Printing. a style of type.
11. to make or finish (something, esp. furniture) in imitation of antiques.
12. to emboss (an image, design, letters, or the like) on paper or fabric.
13. to shop for or collect antiques: She spent her vacation antiquing in Boston.

Answer 9

ANCIENT

Belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire

ANTIQUE

Any piece of furniture or decorative object or the like produced in a former period and valuable because of its beauty or rarity

Answer 10

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