1. The historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe
   "Scholars studied the art and culture of antiquity"
    
2. Extreme oldness
   "The antiquity of the ruins fascinated the archaeologists";
   - ancientness
    
3. An artifact surviving from the past
   "The museum's collection of antiquities included pottery from ancient Greece"

Derived forms: antiquities

Type of: age, artefact [Brit], artifact [N. Amer], historic period, oldness

Part of: history

Encyclopedia: Antiquity, Ohio