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CLASSIC
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A creation of the highest excellence
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("classic" is a kind of...):
creation (an artifact that has been brought into existence by someone)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An artist who has created classic works
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("classic" is a kind of...):
artist; creative person (a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to the first significant period of a civilization, culture, area of study, etc.
Example:
classical Marxism
Synonyms:
classic; classical
Classified under:
Similar:
classical; Graeco-Roman; Greco-Roman (of or pertaining to or characteristic of the ancient Greeks and Romans, especially their art, literature, or culture)
classical (of or relating to music in the European tradition, such as symphonies and operas)
classical ((physics) relating to or based on concepts that preceded the theories of relativity and quantum mechanics)
neoclassic; neoclassical (characteristic of a revival of an earlier classical style)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Well-known and long-established in form or style
Example:
the classic struggle between good and evil
Synonyms:
classic; classical
Classified under:
Similar:
traditional (consisting of or derived from tradition)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Considered of the highest quality and lasting significance or worth
Example:
'War and Peace' is a classic novel
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
superior (of high or superior quality or performance)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Of a well-known type; remarkably typical
Example:
she made the classic mistake of choosing style over substance
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
typical (exhibiting the qualities or characteristics that identify a group or kind or category)
Context examples:
Based on the cytoplasmic characteristics of the neoplastic cells, this type of carcinoma is classified as classic (typical) or eosinophilic.
(Chromophobe Renal Cell Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
The classic description of chirality is the comparison of the hand in a mirror, because the mirror image is the opposite.
(Chiral, NCI Thesaurus)
In the classic zinc finger, one zinc atom is bound to two cysteines and two histidines.
(C2H2 Zinc Finger, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
A morphologic variant of classic leiomyoma characterized by a dense cellular infiltrate composed of spindle or round cells with scant cytoplasm and a less obvious interlacing fascicle pattern.
(Cellular Leiomyoma, NCI Thesaurus)
The disease is divided into classic, intermediate, intermittent, and thiamine responsive subtypes.
(Maple Syrup Urine Disease, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
Much like a classic Turing computer system, cells have the capacity to process and respond to instructions and codes inputted into their main system.
(Cells Programmed Like Computers to Fight Disease, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The planets Uranus and Neptune are sometimes referred to as "ice giants" to distinguish them from their larger siblings, Jupiter and Saturn, the classic "gas giants."
(Cassini spies the ice-giant planet Uranus, NASA)
This case deserves to be a classic.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Nothing could destroy its exquisite oval, its well-nigh classic lines, its delicately stencilled brows, its large brown eyes, clear-seeing and calm, gloriously calm.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
A congenital mesoblastic nephroma characterized by the presence of classic and cellular areas.
(Mixed Congenital Mesoblastic Nephroma, NCI Thesaurus)
