Adjective

(en adjective)

Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.

* 1661 , , The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond

During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant

* (Lord Byron) (1788-1824)

Give, as thy last memorial to the age, / One classic drama, and reform the stage.

Exemplary of a particular style.

Exhibiting timeless quality.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

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* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-01-01, author=Paul Bartel, Ashli Moore

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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.

* (Felicia Hemans) (1804-1864)

Though throned midst Latium's classic plains.

(euphemistic) Traditional; original.

Adjective

(en adjective)

(not comparable) Constituting or relating to the average.

The average age of the participants was 18.5.

Neither very good nor very bad; rated somewhere in the middle of all others in the same category.

I soon found I was only an average chess player.

Typical.

* 2002 , Andy Turnbull, The Synthetic Beast: When Corporations Come to Life , page 12,

We tend to think that exceptionally attractive men and women are outstanding but the fact is that they are more average than most.

* 2004 , Deirdre V. Lovecky, Different Minds: Gifted Children with AD/HD, Asperger Syndrome, and Other Learning Deficits , page 75,

Things that never would occur to more average children, with and without AD/HD, will give these children nightmares.

* '2009'', Susan T. Fiske, ''Social Beings: Core Motives in Social Psychology , page 73,

In other words, highly attractive people like highly attractive communicators and more average' people like more ' average communicators.

The average family will not need the more expensive features of this product.

(informal) Not outstanding, not good, banal; bad or poor.

* 2002 , Andy Slaven, Video Game Bible, 1985-2002 , page 228,

The graphics, sound, and most everything else are all very average . However, the main thing that brings this game down are the controls - they feel very clumsy and awkward at times.

* 2005 , Brad Knight, Laci Peterson: The Whole Story: Laci, Scott, and Amber's Deadly Love Triangle , page 308,

But what the vast majority of the populace doesn?t realise is the fact that he?s only on TV because he became famous from one case, Winona Ryder's, which, by the way, he lost because he?s only a very average attorney.

* 2009 , Carn Tiernan, On the Back of the Other Side , page 62,

In the piano stool there was a stack of music, mostly sentimental ballads intended to be sung by people with very average voices accompanied by not very competent pianists.