Usually means: Traditional style, valued over time.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word classical:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. classical: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. classical: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. classical: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. classical: Collins English Dictionary
  5. classical: Vocabulary.com
  6. Classical, Classical, classical: Wordnik
  7. classical: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. classical: Wiktionary
  9. classical: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Classical (album), Classical (architecture), Classical (music), Classical, The Classical: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Classical: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. classical: Rhymezone
  13. classical: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. classical: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. classical: Free Dictionary
  16. classical: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. classical: Dictionary/thesaurus
  18. classical: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  19. classical: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  20. Classical: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  21. classical: Infoplease Dictionary
  22. classical: Dictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. classical: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Classical: art glossary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. classical: Glossary of research economics

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. classical: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. classical: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. classical: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Classical: Chess Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.
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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