classical
IPA: kɫˈæsɪkʌɫ
noun
- (countable) One that is classical in some way; for example, a classical economist.
- Short for classical music. [(music) Music of the classical period; the music of Mozart, Haydn, etc; the musical period before the romantic.]
- (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).]
adjective
- Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.
- Of or pertaining to established principles in a discipline.
- (music) Describing Western music and musicians of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
- (informal, music) Describing art music (rather than pop, jazz, blues, etc), especially when played using instruments of the orchestra.
- 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.
- Knowledgeable or skilled in the classics; versed in the classics.
- Conforming to the best authority in literature and art; chaste; pure; refined
- (physics) Pertaining to models of physical laws that do not take quantum or relativistic effects into account; Newtonian or Maxwellian.
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Examples of "classical" in Sentences
- Classical music is a relatively rarefied field.
- He was fired for treating classical music with irreverence.
- None of the editors in the classical music remotely support this.
- He was the first to transcribe the classical radif of the Persian music.
- In all of Indian classical music, a form of solfege is the first lesson.
- The victory thrust him into the forefront of the classical music circuit.
- Confucius famously lamented the downfall of classical music and the rites.
- Its purpose is to encourage budding soloists in the field of classical music.