(linguistics, history) Middle Egyptian, sometimes also including Old Egyptian

The older linguistic form of Malay and Indonesian originally spoken and written in Sumatra from about 1400 AD to 1800 AD. It developed from Old Malay, with heavy influence from Arabic and Persian after mass Islamisation.

The study of Ancient Greek and Latin, their literature, history, etc., sometimes inclusive of the study of the ancient Mediterranean generally.

(literature, linguistics) An ancient language that has an independent tradition that arose mostly on its own, and has a large and rich body of ancient literature.

plural of fall classic

Synonym of Old Armenian

Misspelling of classical antiquity.

(music) the musical period of time following the Baroque period and preceding the Romantic period, spanning c.1750-c.1820.

(logic) A kind of logic based on the principles that each proposition has a truth value of either "true" or "false", but not both, and that if a proposition were to be both true and false or neither true nor false then a result would be that all propositions would be both true and false.

(history) The era of the height of Greco-Roman civilization in southern Europe, roughly comprising the 6th century BC to the 5th century (AD), although sometimes distinguished from Late Antiquity