classicaladjective
uk/ˈklæs.ɪ.kəl/us/ˈklæs.ɪ.kəl/classical adjective (MUSIC)
A2 Classical music is considered to be part of a long, formal tradition and to be of lasting value:
specialized music used to refer to a style of music written in Europe between about 1750 and 1830:
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- The newcomer on the radio scene is a commercial station devoted to classical music.
- Some critics say he prostituted his musical skills by going into pop rather than staying with classical music.
- What do you want to listen to - jazz, classical or pop?
- I'm not very big on classical music.
- In the classical music world these days, authentic instruments are where it's at.
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Types of music
- ambient music
- anthemic
- atonal
- backing
- bhangra
- blues
- elegiac
- elevator music
- funk
- gospel
- goth
- melodic
- popular music
- raga
- ragga
- Rastafarian
- reggae
- unaccompanied
- unplayable
- world music
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classical adjective (TRADITIONAL)
C2 traditional in style or form, or based on methods developed over a long period of time:
used to describe something that is attractive because it has a simple, traditional style:
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Custom, tradition & conformity
- apple pie
- as American as apple pie idiom 1
- backward-looking
- backwards
- be (like) sheep idiom
- blend into the scenery idiom
- cue
- folk
- folk memory
- folklore
- follow the crowd idiom
- go/swim against the tide idiom
- nonconformist
- norm
- orthodoxy
- patrimony
- reactionary
- scenery
- sheep
- zeitgeist
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classical adjective (CULTURE)
belonging to or relating to the culture of ancient Rome and Greece:
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Ancient history: before 500 AD
- ancient
- antiquity
- archaic
- Celt
- centurion
- Colosseum
- Grecian
- Hellenic
- Hippocrates
- legion
- mummy
- necropolis
- neoclassical
- Neogene
- palaeo-
- Saturnalia
- the Bronze Age
- the Christian era
- the Iron Age
- Tigris
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