What is the answer to the crossword clue "antiquity"?

There is more than one. 5 words in our dictionary fit this clue, and which one a puzzle wants depends on the length of the slot and the crossing letters. Five squares gives you RELIC, STELA and STELE. RELIC is the everyday word and the most likely, but STELE turns up often in puzzles because those letters are useful and because setters enjoy it.

How many letters is the answer to "antiquity"?

Anything from 5 to 11. The length with the most candidates is 5. Count the squares in your grid and read only that row of the table.

How reliable are these answers?

3 of the 5 appear in two independently compiled reference works, WordNet and Moby Thesaurus, rather than one. All of them are in the 173,000-word dictionary this site searches. None of them comes from any published puzzle.

Crossword clue

Antiquity crossword clue

5 words in our dictionary can answer the crossword clue "antiquity", from as short as 5 letters up to 11, grouped below by the length of your slot.

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Answers by length

Read the row that matches your slot. RELIC is the shortest answer here and ANCIENTNESS the longest.

Letters	Answers
5	relicconfirmed by two sources stela stele
7	antiqueconfirmed by two sources
11	ancientnessconfirmed by two sources

What this list looks like

3 of these are 5 letters, which is more than any other length manages.

4 of the 5 are not synonyms at all but specific kinds of what the clue describes.

Which one does the setter mean?

Five squares gives you RELIC, STELA and STELE. RELIC is the everyday word and the most likely, but STELE turns up often in puzzles because those letters are useful and because setters enjoy it.

How these differ

Antiquity means both great age and an object that has it, and the answers cover both. ANCIENTNESS is the quality alone. ANTIQUE and RELIC are objects, RELIC carrying a religious sense as well: a saint's relic is venerated rather than collected. STELA and STELE are the same word, plural stelae, and mean an upright stone slab carved with an inscription or relief, the standard monument of the ancient Mediterranean and the form the Rosetta Stone takes.

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Where these answers come from

This is a dictionary answering a question, not a copied answer key. Every word above is recorded by WordNet as meaning “antiquity” or as naming a kind of it, and each one is in the 173,000-wordlist this site searches. Moby Thesaurus lists 3 of them too. We hold no newspaper's answer key and reproduce no published crossword.

Common questions

What is the answer to the crossword clue "antiquity"?: There is more than one. 5 words in our dictionary fit this clue, and which one a puzzle wants depends on the length of the slot and the crossing letters. Five squares gives you RELIC, STELA and STELE. RELIC is the everyday word and the most likely, but STELE turns up often in puzzles because those letters are useful and because setters enjoy it.
How many letters is the answer to "antiquity"?: Anything from 5 to 11. The length with the most candidates is 5. Count the squares in your grid and read only that row of the table.
How reliable are these answers?: 3 of the 5 appear in two independently compiled reference works, WordNet and Moby Thesaurus, rather than one. All of them are in the 173,000-word dictionary this site searches. None of them comes from any published puzzle.