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Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today.
Diane Wakoski

Meaning of "archaism" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ARCHAISM

From New Latin archaismus, from Greek arkhaïsmos, from arkhaizein to model one's style upon that of ancient writers.
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PRONUNCIATION OF ARCHAISM

archaism  [ˈɑːkɪˌɪzəm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ARCHAISM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Archaism 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 ARCHAISM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Archaism

In language, an archaism is the use of a form of speech or writing that is no longer current or that is current only within a few special contexts. Their deliberate use can be subdivided into literary archaisms, which seeks to evoke the style of older speech and writing; and lexical archaisms, the use of words no longer in common use. A distinction between archaic and obsolete words and word senses is widely used by dictionaries. An archaic word or sense is one that still has some current use but whose use has dwindled to a few specialized contexts, outside of which it connotes old-fashioned language. A good example of an archaic sense is the present subjunctive form be: it is not obsolete—it is used in constructions such as whether it be X or Y and be that as it may—but it is little used outside of those specific contexts and a few others, and its use outside of them sounds old-fashioned. In contrast, an obsolete word or sense is one that is no longer used at all. A reader encounters them when reading texts that are centuries old.

Definition of archaism in the English dictionary

The definition of archaism in the dictionary is the adoption or imitation of something archaic, such as a word or an artistic or literary style. Other definition of archaism is an archaic word, expression, style, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ARCHAISM


atheism
ˈeɪθɪˌɪzəm
cockneyism
ˈkɒknɪˌɪzəm
cronyism
ˈkrəʊnɪˌɪzəm
fideism
ˈfiːdeɪˌɪzəm
flunkeyism
ˈflʌŋkɪˌɪzəm
flunkyism
ˈflʌŋkɪˌɪzəm
Hebraism
ˈhiːbreɪˌɪzəm
jockeyism
ˈdʒɒkɪˌɪzəm
Judaism
ˈdʒuːdeɪˌɪzəm
McCarthyism
məˈkɑːθɪˌɪzəm
Mithraism
ˈmɪθreɪˌɪzəm
monotheism
ˈmɒnəʊθɪˌɪzəm
Naziism
ˈnɑːtsɪˌɪzəm
nimbyism
ˈnɪmbɪˌɪzəm
obeism
ˈəʊbɪˌɪzəm
pantheism
ˈpænθɪˌɪzəm
Pharisaism
ˈfærɪseɪˌɪzəm
Trotskyism
ˈtrɒtskɪˌɪzəm
voluntaryism
ˈvɒləntərɪˌɪzəm
whiteboyism
ˈwaɪtbɔɪˌɪzəm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ARCHAISM

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

WORDS THAT END LIKE ARCHAISM

apotropaism
Conservative Judaism
Dadaism
karaism
Krishnaism
Lamaism
mahatmaism
Mazdaism
Orthodox Judaism
pollyannaism
prosaism
Reform Judaism
Shivaism
Sivaism
ultraism
Vedaism
voltaism

Synonyms and antonyms of archaism in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «archaism» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ARCHAISM

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

Translator English - Chinese

古语
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

arcaísmo
570 millions of speakers

English

archaism
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

प्राचीन्तावाद
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مهجور
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

архаизм
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

arcaísmo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সেকেলে বস্তু
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

archaïsme
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Archaism
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Archaismus
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

古風なもの
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

의고체
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Archaism
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cổ ngư
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பழைமையை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पुराणवाद
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

artık kullanılmayan deyim
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

arcaismo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

archaizm
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

архаїзм
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

arhaism
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αρχαϊσμό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

archaïsme
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

arkaism
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

archaism
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of archaism

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ARCHAISM»

The term «archaism» is regularly used and occupies the 89.441 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ARCHAISM» OVER TIME

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

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QUOTES WITH «ARCHAISM»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word archaism.
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Diane Wakoski
Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ARCHAISM»

Discover the use of archaism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to archaism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Archaism and Innovation: Studies in the Culture of Middle ...
The current volume assembles a series of studies of Middle Kingdom culture gathered around the theme of archaism, change, and innovation.
David P. Silverman, William Kelly Simpson, Josef Josef William Wegner, 2009
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Studies in Archaism in Aulus Gellius
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.
Walter Eugene Foster, 2009
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A Study of Archaism in Euripides
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Clarence Augustus Manning, 2011
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Screening Nostalgia: Populuxe Props and Technicolor ...
Chapter. E. The. Aviator: Deliberate. Archaism,. Technicolor. Aesthetics. and. Style. as. Substance. However dissimilar Far From Heaven and Sin City may seem, both exhibit features central to contemporary understandings of the nostalgia film ...
Christine Sprengler, 2009
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Deducibility and Decidability
'π.π is a predicate whose diagonalization contains an archaism'. Since 'choleric' is—for our purposes—an archaism, θ1 is true of 'p.p is choleric', but it is false of both 'η.η contains an archaism' and 'η.η contains no archaism'. Is θ1 true of itself ...
R. R. Rockingham Gill, 2002
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Archaism and Orality in Homeric Syntax
The first two chapters of this dissertation are focused on reframing the archaism and orality theories in light of comparative evidence from late 20th century linguistic work on crosslinguistic syntax and structural differences between ...
Daphne Kleps, 2011
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A Shock to Thought: Expression After Deleuze and Guattari
10. NEO-ARCHAISM. Mani Haghighi In September of 1998, a decade after the publication of Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses, the Iranian President Mohammad Khatami announced that, as far as his government was concerned, the ...
Brian Massumi, 2002
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A History of the Spanish Language
1 Archaism The early date at which the latinization of Spain began (the end of the third century BC) implies that the Latin carried to Spain by the earliest soldiers, traders and migrants represents an earlier phase in the development of Latin ...
Ralph John Penny, 2002
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Freud and Philosophy : 'An Essay on Interpretation
By no means do I claim that Freudianism reduces itself to this denunciation of cultural archaism; in the next chapter I hope to show that the psychoanalytic interpretation of culture contains not only a highly thematized archeology but also an ...
Paul Ricoeur, 2008
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Revisionary Play: Studies in the Spenserian Dynamics
The. Mutabilitie. Cantos. Archaism. and. Evolution. in. Retrospect. The view of experience expressed in and as Spenser's poetry is shaped by a radically historical consciousness. It is historical in two reciprocal aspects: the objective character ...
Harry Berger, 1988

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ARCHAISM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term archaism is used in the context of the following news items.
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The GOP Congress refuses to use the power it has
Nor is court-stripping some quaint 19th-century archaism. Justice Felix Frankfurter's opinion in the case of National Insurance Co. v. Tidewater ... «American Thinker, Jul 15»
2
DVD Review: 'Story of My Death'
... of Jimmy Gimferrer, whose digital photography seems to envelope Casanova in a miasma of archaism. As if representing the blurring lines of historical eras, ... «CineVue, Jun 15»
3
Berlin's summer of performance and film art starts this weekend
We will meet Medea, Antigone, Dionysus and other heroes in all their libidinosity and archaism”. The Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson's ... «Art Newspaper, Jun 15»
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Osborne's opportunity for audacious tax reform
The first is the abolition of “non dom” status, a 200-year-old archaism that cuts taxes for many rich individuals resident in Britain. The footloose ... «Financial Times, Jun 15»
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You can't have your cake and eat it, too
... me that it is not a good idea to get rid of one regime only to be replaced by endless infighting, bigotry, parochialism, archaism, and stupidity. «Malaysiakini, Jun 15»
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The duel in history: polite, violent, defiant
Two centuries before that Louis XIV, king of France, tried to outlaw it as a feudal archaism. Yet despite this, the literature of the 19th and even ... «The Australian Financial Review, Jun 15»
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Concern as election funding remains under wraps
How can this apparent archaism be justified in an age when transparency has taken on the status of dogma in many fields of political and ... «swissinfo.ch, Jun 15»
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A literary fascism.
He writes that “one seldom comes on six consecutive lines of his verse in which there is not an archaism or an affected turn of speech”. «Village, Jun 15»
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SF Opera's 'Two Women' is a Puccinian retread
“Two Women,” by contrast, seems committed to archaism for its own sake. Throughout the two-act score, Tutino uses lush, rhapsodic orchestral ... «SFGate, Jun 15»
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Opinion: Traveling through time down U.S. 17
It was an archaism. The scene didn't belong late in 2014 along U.S. 17 between Hampstead and Wilmington. It took me back to a picture — in ... «Havelock News, Jun 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Archaism [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/archaism>. May 2024 ».
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