A creation of the highest excellence.

Nederlands: classic, klassieker
Pools: klasyka

An artist who has created classic works.

Nederlands: klassieker, missie
Pools: klasyk

Of or relating to the first significant period of a civilization, culture, area of study, etc.:
— Classic Chinese pottery.
— Classical Marxism.

synoniem: classical.

Roget 242: symmetrical, shapely, well set, finished; beautiful etc. 845; classic, chaste, severe.    regular, uniform, balanced; equal etc. 27; parallel, coextensive.    arborescent^†, arboriform^†; dendriform^†, dendroid^†; branching; ramous^†, ramose; filiciform^†, filicoid^†; subarborescent^†; papilionaceous^†.    fuji-shaped, fujigata [Jap.].    ... meer laten zien

Roget 124: old, ancient, antique; of long standing, time-honored, venerable; elder, eldest; firstborn.    prime; primitive, primeval, primigenous^†; paleolontological, paleontologic, paleoanthropological, paleoanthropic^†, paleolithic, primordial, primordinate^†; aboriginal etc. (beginning) 66; diluvian^†, antediluvian; protohistoric^†; prehistoric; antebellum, colonial, precolumbian; patriarchal, preadamite^†; paleocrystic^†; fossil, paleozoolical, paleozoic, preglacial^†, antemundane^†; archaic, classic, medieval, Pre-Raphaelite, ancestral, black-letter.    immemorial, traditional, prescriptive, customary, whereof the memory of man runneth not to the whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary; inveterate, rooted.    antiquated, of other times, rococo, of the old school, after-age, obsolete; out of date, out of fashion, out of it; stale, old-fashioned, behind the age; old-world; exploded; gone out, gone by; passe, run out; senile etc. 128; time worn; crumbling etc. (deteriorated) 659; secondhand.    old as the hills, old as Methuselah, old as Adam^†, old as history.    [geological eras (list, starting at given number of years bp)] Archeozoic [5,000,000,000], Proterozoic [1,500,000,000], Paleozoic [600,000,000], Mesozoic [220,000,000], Cenozoic [70,000,000]. [geological periods] Precambrian, Cambrian [600,000,000], Ordovician [500,000,000], Silurian [440,000,000], Devonian [400,000,000], Mississippian [350,000,000], Pennsylvanian [300,000,000], Permian [270,000,000], Triassic [220,000,000], Jurassic [180,000,000], Cretaceous [135,000,000], Tertiary [70,000,000], Paleogene [70,000,000], Neocene [25,0000,000], Quaternary [1,000,000]. [geological epochs (list, starting at 70,000,000 years bp)] Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene, Recent.    ... meer laten zien

Of a well-known type; remarkably typical.

Considered of the highest quality and lasting significance or worth.

Well-known and long-established in form or style:
— A classical ballet.
— Classic double-breasted suit.
— The classic struggle between good and evil.

synoniem: classical.