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Meaning of "archaicism" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ARCHAICISM

archaicism  [ɑːˈkeɪɪsɪzəm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ARCHAICISM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Archaicism is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ARCHAICISM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of archaicism in the English dictionary

The definition of archaicism in the dictionary is an archaism.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ARCHAICISM


agnosticism
æɡˈnɒstɪsɪzəm
Anglo-Catholicism
ˈæŋɡləʊkəˈθɒlɪsɪzəm
anti-Catholicism
ˌæntɪkəˈθɒlɪsɪzəm
antiracism
ˌæntɪˈreɪsɪzəm
apocalypticism
əˌpɒkəˈlɪptɪsɪzəm
astaticism
eɪˈstætɪsɪzəm
athleticism
æθˈlɛtɪsɪzəm
chromaticism
krəˈmætɪsɪzəm
didacticism
dɪˈdæktɪsɪzəm
ecumenicism
ˌiːkjʊˈmɛnɪsɪzəm
esotericism
ˌɛsəʊˈtɛrɪsɪzəm
exoticism
ɪɡˈzɒtɪsɪzəm
laicism
ˈleɪɪsɪzəm
metempiricism
ˌmetɪmˈpɪrɪsɪzəm
peripateticism
ˌpɛrɪpəˈtɛtɪsɪzəm
polysyllabicism
ˌpɒlɪsɪˈlæbɪsɪzəm
psychoticism
saɪˈkɒtɪsɪzəm
racism
ˈreɪsɪzəm
scepticism
ˈskɛptɪsɪzəm
skepticism
ˈskɛptɪsɪzəm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ARCHAICISM

archaeometrist
archaeometry
archaeopteryx
archaeornis
Archaeozoic
archaeozoologist
archaeozoology
archaeus
archaezoology
archaic
archaically
archaise
archaiser
archaism
archaist
archaistic
archaize
archaizer
archangel
archangelic

WORDS THAT END LIKE ARCHAICISM

aestheticism
Catholicism
classicism
criticism
cynicism
eclecticism
eroticism
fanaticism
fascism
historicism
literary criticism
lyricism
mosaicism
mysticism
neoclassicism
neuroticism
romanticism
scholasticism
self-criticism
textual criticism
witticism

Synonyms and antonyms of archaicism in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «archaicism» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ARCHAICISM

Find out the translation of archaicism to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of archaicism from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «archaicism» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

archaicism
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

arcaísmo
570 millions of speakers

English

archaicism
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

archaicism
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

archaicism
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

archaicism
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

archaicism
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

archaicism
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

archaïsme
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kuno
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Archaismus
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

archaicism
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

archaicism
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Archaicism
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

archaicism
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

archaicism
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पुराणवाद
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

archaicism
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

archaicism
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

archaicism
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

archaicism
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

archaicism
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

archaicism
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

archaicism
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

archaicism
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

archaicism
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of archaicism

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ARCHAICISM»

The term «archaicism» is normally little used and occupies the 138.247 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ARCHAICISM» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «archaicism» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «archaicism» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about archaicism

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ARCHAICISM»

Discover the use of archaicism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to archaicism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Politics in the Rural Society: The Southern Massif Central ...
Eugen Weber has provided us with an outstanding example.23 We would not wish to reject the tension inherent in the 'archaicism— modernity" dichotomy altogether, rather to reformulate it. The cautious confrontation between the peasantry of ...
P. M. Jones, 2004
2
Jazz Age Catholicism: Mystic Modernism in Postwar Paris, ...
43 In June, Pierre Lasserre accused Maritain in Les Nou- velles littéraires of ' archaicism': 'To search for lessons in Saint Thomas, what could be better? But to respond to the difficulties of contemporary thought solely by Saint Thomas, this is  ...
Stephen Schloesser, 2005
3
Style, Society and Person: Archaeological and Ethnological ...
209 Archiving, 13, 22, 42, 46-48, 180, 196 See also Archaicism, Preservation of stylistic templates, Prototypes Art, 17, 35, 50 See also Artifact, Artist, Media complex/elaborate. 54, 55 versus craft, 21, 30, 31, 57 graphic versus verbal, 67 Art ...
Christopher Carr, Jill E. Neitzel, 1995
4
Literary Translation: A Practical Guide
The advance is discounted from ROYALTIES. archaicism: in literary translation, use of a deliberately outmoded Lexeme to achieve the sensation of remoteness in time, nostalgia, or quaintness, among other effects. Examples would include ...
Clifford E. Landers, 2001
5
Settings and Stray Paths: Writings on Landscapes and Gardens
... every landscape architect student project had been equinoxed to death."21 If archaicism was one school of semantic creation, the worship of the Genius of the Place marked a second. Alexander Pope had enjoined Lord Burlington to consult  ...
Marc Treib, 2005
6
Master and Disciple: The Cultural Foundations of Moroccan ...
Jacques Berque has shown how between the two wars a (deceptive) archaicism beat the colonist and the modernizing discourse at their own game.40 Was this archaicism an example of regression, of resistance, or of escape? It is impossible  ...
Abdellah Hammoudi, 1997
7
To Bear Witness
Egyptian archaicism is a dead archaicism—the Greek is much richer. The theatre came out of the Dionysian revels. The word “tragedy” comes from the Greek word “tragos” meaning goat. A goat was sacrificed at the rites of Dionysus. In Greek ...
Ted Dalbotten, 2008
8
The Thread of Life
The answer lies in the fact that not merely is the wish an archaic mental phenomenon, but it comes along with an archaic theory of the mind to which the wisher subscribes. Indeed, the archaicism of the latter largely accounts for the archaicism ...
Richard Wollheim, 1986
9
Brazil, Mixture Or Massacre?: Essays in the Genocide of a ...
(1974: 63) Naturally, "archaicism" is characteristic of Afro-Brazilian arts, in which Valladares encounters a "syncretic imaginary" of African worship in liturgical objects, votive offerings sculpted in wood, pieces in clay, etc. It need hardly be ...
Abdias do Nascimento, 1989
10
Venice Desired
He wants to arrive at 'some perception of the kind of enfantillage or archaicism to which it may be possible, even in days of advanced science, legitimately to return ' (CW9, 289). 'But how far it may be possible to recur to such archaicism, or to ...
Tony Tanner, 1992

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ARCHAICISM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term archaicism is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Mewling Quim
Not to be overlooked is the first word in the phrase, which I take to be not so much a Britishism as an archaicism. The Oxford English Dictionary ... «Chronicle of Higher Education, Mar 15»
2
Boyle column: The Great Poet Laureate Poetry Bash of 2014
... literary leavening but also with the practical purpose of referentially connecting the lines with the archaicism of the Medieval troubadours et al. «Asheville Citizen-Times, Jul 14»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Archaicism [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/archaicism>. Apr 2024 ».
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