Noun: classic
| Singular | classic |
| Plural | classics |
Sample Sentences
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JAMES CARTER: The man's destroying a classic! [2001, Jeff Nathanson, Rush Hour 2, New Line Cinema:]
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It was the first work to which he had put his name; and it at once raised him to the rank of a legitimate English classic. [1856 February, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “[Contributions to the Encyclopædia Britannica.] Oliver Goldsmith.”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC, page 366:]
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The goal of the top horses was to win a Classic (or preferably three, thus claiming the Triple Crown) or the Ascot Gold Cup, […] [2012, Dr Joyce Kay, Professor Wray Vamplew, Encyclopedia of British Horse Racing, page 316:]
Nouns inflected like classic
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French classique, from Latin classic(us) (“relating to the classes of Roman citizenry, especially the highest”), from classis. By surface analysis, class + -ic. Piecewise doublet of classy. See: French Nouns '
classique', Latin Nouns '
classicus'.
Verbs referencing "classic"
Irish Nouns
clasaic, Polish Nouns
klasyk.