🇬🇧🇪🇸 antiquity - antigüedad : English Lesson

Meaning of "antiquity" ("antigüedad"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

Antiquity refers to ancient times, usually before the Middle Ages. It’s when great civilizations like the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans built pyramids, invented democracy, and probably got really tired of wearing togas.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

People in antiquity built the pyramids, but I can’t even build a decent Lego house.

People in antiquity wrote on clay tablets, which sounds cool until you realize there was no autocorrect.

My grandpa’s jokes are so old, archaeologists are trying to put them in a museum of antiquity.

My dad still uses a flip phone, which historians now consider part of antiquity.

The museum had artifacts from antiquity, including a spoon—because even ancient people liked soup.

A boy opens a dusty box and finds an antiquity: a small cracked cup. He wipes the antiquity, holds antiquity to the window light, and pictures a baker from antiquity shaping it. His hands tremble; he laughs and whispers, "You came from antiquity." He sets the antiquity on the shelf, feeling connected and calm.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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