Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Noting any phase of modern civilization which is based on principles or practices developed during the period of Greek and Roman antiquity. It is especially applicable to resemblances between modern and ancient art. See neo-Greek.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Belonging to, or designating, the modern revival or adaptation of classical, esp. Greco-Roman, style, taste and manner of work in architecture, arts, literature, etc.

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  • adjective neoclassical

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective characteristic of a revival of an earlier classical style

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Examples

  • -- Callimachus, more erudite, more scholastic, was what is termed a neoclassic, which is that he desired to treat in a new way the same subjects that had been dealt with by the great men of ancient

    Initiation into Literature ��mile Faguet 1881

  • This seeming independence is reflected both the famous classical liberal dictum about limited government and in neoclassic economic’s view that markets are antecedent to government and that the government intervenes into markets.

    Juntas vs. Open Societies, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • And it's set to music in the grand tradition of "Beauty and the Beast," which is to say the neoclassic '90s brand of Disney animation.

    unknown title 2009

  • And it's set to music in the grand tradition of "Beauty and the Beast," which is to say the neoclassic '90s brand of Disney animation.

    unknown title 2009

  • And it’s set to music in the grand tradition of “Beauty and the Beast,” which is to say the neoclassic ’90s brand of Disney animation.”

    Early Buzz: Disney’s The Princess and the Frog | /Film 2009

  • "neoclassic" / "libertarian" anti-distribution rhetoric comes from the ideological opposition to late-19th / early-20th-century socialism (mostly marxist).

    MetaFilter Projects 2008

  • Grandeur marks the neoclassic theater's entrance, with massive stairs leading up to arched entranceways and, eventually, to crystal-windowed wood doors guarded by iron gargoyles.

    Durango's colonial architecture: eleven quarry stone gems 2009

  • Grandeur marks the neoclassic theater's entrance, with massive stairs leading up to arched entranceways and, eventually, to crystal-windowed wood doors guarded by iron gargoyles.

    Durango's colonial architecture: eleven quarry stone gems 2009

  • In front of the museum is a fountain with neoclassic statues and gushing water.

    The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

  • In front of the museum is a fountain with neoclassic statues and gushing water.

    The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

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