🏺 Very old object 🏺 A rare old item 👗 Old-fashioned 🛍️ To hunt antiques 🖌️ To make look old

to antique

1 7.5

To look for old things to buy for fun

verb
/ænˈtiːk/

: buscar antigüedades

"Says it will give her peace of mind while your father is on the golf course and I'm out antiquing."

Examples

You have been antiquing a premade Chippendale sofa: darkening the fabric with tea, wearing out the armrests with fine steel wool.

Fiction book (1993)
My friends and I are planning to spend the weekend antiquing at the local flea markets.
She loves antiquing, especially searching for vintage furniture and decorations.
Every Saturday, he goes antiquing to find unique items for his collection.

Compounds

antique vase

1 6.3

An old, valuable vase kept for its beauty or history

Brummagem antique

Archaic

9.9

An object from Birmingham that looks old but is usually a copy and often fake

antique velocipede

Archaic

9.9

An old human-powered bicycle from the 1800s

verd antique

Specialized

9.9

A dark green marble with streaks used for decoration

verde antique

Specialized

9.9

A dark green marble with light lines used for decoration

How Dedicated

to scour

57 5.1

hunt

190 2.1

to antique

1 7.5

to shop

557 1.0

to browse

95 2.8

Surface Forms

antique infinitive

antiqued past

antiqued past participle

antiquing present participle

antiques third person singular

Etymology

The word antique comes from Latin antiquus, meaning 'old'. The verb use comes from the noun: to antique, or to go 'antiquing', is to look for or buy things 'from before' that people collect.