Words similar to archaic
Example sentences for: archaic
How can you use “archaic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Around 3000 b.c. , native Archaic Indians began to develop a lasting hunting and gathering culture.
As used here, the meaning of without outside is archaic, as in the well-known stage line, The carriage awaits without.
The term taboo in linguistics means, simply, `proscribed by society as improper or unacceptable' [RHD2] , but Jay prefers the narrow, somewhat archaic, anthropologist's definition that focuses on “supernatural” and “ritualistic” interdiction.
Modern Japanese, he contends, derives from an archaic form of Korean that took root in Japan but was stamped out in Korea during the first several centuries.
With all the dialects and long-lived speakers of English today, the lexicographer risks inaccuracy in labeling a word, phrase, or sense obsolete or archaic : there is sure to be someone who speaks a form of English in which the expression is extant.