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单词 classical
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
clas•si•cal /ˈklæsɪkəl/USA pronunciation   adj. [before a noun]
  1. of or relating to ancient Greece and Rome, or of ancient Greek and Roman literature or art:classical architecture;classical literature;classical languages.
  2. Music and Danceof, relating to, or being music of the European tradition, including opera, symphonies, chamber music, and works for solo instrument.
  3. Literature, Fine Art[often: Classical] of or relating to a style of literature or art that follows established treatments and standards and emphasizes simplicity and balance in form.
  4. accepted as having authority, as distinguished from experimental and unproven: Classical physics held that there were only three dimensions.
  5. having simplicity in style:classical elegance.

n. [uncountable]
  1. Music and Danceclassical music.
clas•si•cal•ly, adv. 

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
clas•si•cal  (klasi kəl),USA pronunciation adj. 
  1. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Greek and Roman antiquity:classical literature; classical languages.
  2. conforming to ancient Greek and Roman models in literature or art, or to later systems modeled upon them.
  3. marked by classicism:classical simplicity.
  4. Music and Dance
    • of, pertaining to, or constituting the formally and artistically more sophisticated and enduring types of music, as distinguished from popular and folk music and jazz. Classical music includes symphonies, operas, sonatas, song cycles, and lieder.
    • of, pertaining to, characterized by, or adhering to the well-ordered, chiefly homophonic musical style of the latter half of the 18th and the early 19th centuries:Haydn and Mozart are classical composers.
  5. Architecture
    • Architecturenoting or pertaining to the architecture of ancient Greece and Rome, esp. the religious and public architecture, characterized by the employment of orders. Cf. order (def. 27b).
    • Architecturenoting or pertaining to any of several styles of architecture closely imitating the architecture of ancient Greece or Rome;
      neoclassic.
    • Architecturenoting or pertaining to architectural details or motifs adapted from ancient Greek or Roman models.
    • Architecture(of an architectural design) simple, reposeful, well-proportioned, or symmetrical in a manner suggesting the architecture of ancient Greece and Rome.
  6. Fine Art(often cap.) pertaining to or designating the style of fine arts, esp. painting and sculpture, developed in Greece during the 5th and 4th centuries b.c., chiefly characterized by balanced composition, the separation of figures from an architectural background, and the naturalistic rendering of anatomical details, spatial movement, and distribution of weight in a figure. Cf. archaic (def. 4), Hellenistic (def. 5).
  7. of or pertaining to a style of literature and art characterized by conformity to established treatments, taste, or critical standards, and by attention to form with the general effect of regularity, simplicity, balance, proportion, and controlled emotion (contrasted with romantic).
  8. pertaining to or versed in the ancient classics:a classical scholar.
  9. relating to or teaching academic branches of knowledge, as the humanities, general sciences, etc., as distinguished from technical subjects.
  10. (of a given field of knowledge) accepted as standard and authoritative, as distinguished from novel or experimental:classical physics.
  11. classic (defs. 1–5, 8, 10).
  12. [Eccles.]pertaining to a classis.

n. 
  1. classical music:a jazz pianist who studied classical for years.
  • classic + -al1 1580–90
clas′si•cali•ty, classi•cal•ness, n. 
classi•cal•ly, adv. 

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
classical /ˈklæsɪkəl/ adj
  1. of, relating to, or characteristic of the ancient Greeks and Romans or their civilization, esp in the period of their ascendancy
  2. designating, following, or influenced by the art or culture of ancient Greece or Rome: classical architecture
  3. of, relating to, or denoting any music or its period of composition marked by stability of form, intellectualism, and restraint
    Compare romantic
  4. accepted as a standard: the classical suite
  5. denoting serious art music in general
    Compare pop1
  6. denoting or relating to a style in any of the arts characterized by emotional restraint and conservatism: a classical style of painting
  7. (of an education) based on the humanities and the study of Latin and Greek
  8. not involving the quantum theory or the theory of relativity: classical mechanics

ˌclassiˈcality, ˈclassicalness n ˈclassically adv
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