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DS Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

antique vs vintage vs relic

antique, vintage, and relic, interchangeale or not?
  

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Hi I'd say an antique can be anything that's very old. 'That chair is an antique'. The word is used colloquially - 'You really must get a new chair, that one is antique' Vintage tends to be used when you can date something back to a particular year.

— Dave_anon

  • Hi I'd say an antique can be anything that's very old.
  • 'That chair is an antique'.
  • The word is used colloquially - 'You really must get a new chair, that one is antique' Vintage tends to be used when you can date something back to a particular year.
  • 'He has a vintage Rolls-Royce, Silver Cloud, 1956' A relic is old but not usually valuable.
  • 'We can only see now the relic of his house' Dave
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Hi

I'd say an antique can be anything that's very old. 'That chair is an antique'. The word is used colloquially - 'You really must get a new chair, that one is antique'

Vintage tends to be used when you can date something back to a particular year. 'He has a vintage Rolls-Royce, Silver Cloud, 1956'

A relic is old but not usually valuable. 'We can only see now the rel
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can i say my dad is a relic/antique?
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Also, "relic" often has connotations of the remains of something, or of something preserved from an earlier era.
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Hi

I referred to a teenage group recently as a posse and my daughter very probably thought I was a relic. I'm not quite old enough to be thought of as antique

Yes, you can do that though, of course, it is very colloquial

Dave
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