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▸ adjective: Of or pertaining to established principles in a discipline.
▸ adjective: (music) Describing Western music and musicians of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
▸ adjective: (informal, music) Describing art music (rather than pop, jazz, blues, etc), especially when played using instruments of the orchestra.
▸ adjective: Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks and Romans, especially to Greek or Roman authors of the highest rank, or of the period when their best literature was produced; of or pertaining to places inhabited by the ancient Greeks and Romans, or rendered famous by their deeds.
▸ adjective: Knowledgeable or skilled in the classics; versed in the classics.
▸ adjective: Conforming to the best authority in literature and art; chaste; pure; refined
▸ adjective: (physics) Pertaining to models of physical laws that do not take quantum or relativistic effects into account; Newtonian or Maxwellian.
▸ noun: (countable) One that is classical in some way; for example, a classical economist.
▸ noun: Short for classical music. [(music) Music of the classical period; the music of Mozart, Haydn, etc; the musical period before the romantic.]
▸ noun: (chess) Short for classical chess. [(chess) Chess played at a slow time control, with games taking up to several hours (the most common format at professional tournaments).]
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neoclassic,
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