late antique
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.85 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see late, antique.
adj
Of or pertaining to Late Antiquity (period of history).
adj
Alternative letter-case form of late antique.
Example Sentences
- "Late antique houses in Cyprus Have been studied by P. Hadjichritopi.[…]Recently, in 2004, M. Rautman has given an overview of living in the late antique Cypriote countryside."
- "Another grand house with shield portraits and busts of philosophers, dating from the Late Antique period, has been discovered at Aphrodisias in Caria.[…]Fifteen Late Antique mosaic panels, which probably came from Syria and are dated to the late fourth or early fifth centuries, have recently been published."
- "The macro-scale distribution of goods across the classical and Late Antique worlds was produced by a web of small-scale interactions."
- "But in the characterization of the faces, there are clear differences between more late antique and more retrospective versions."
- "There were still students of philosophy who committed their lives to the discipline, but they were a distinct minority among the late antique student population."
- "Recent work on late antique Latin literature has expended much energy in attempts to define a period."
Inflected Forms
more late antique (comparative)
most late antique (superlative)