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classical

CEFR B1

of or relating to the first significant period of a civilization, culture, area of study, etc.

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Six example sentences with classical, each labelled with its topic.

  • Classical Athens produced the assembly, the jury court, and the theater festival within a single crowded century.

    History

  • Classical mechanics still predicts a cannonball's path perfectly, and it only breaks down near the speed of light.

    Science

  • Classical economists built their models on land, labor, and rent, long before anyone tried to measure national output.

    Economics

  • The bank's classical facade borrows its columns from Greek temples built more than two thousand years earlier.

    Architecture

  • Classical Greek philosophy asked what the good life is, a question the field has not stopped arguing since.

    Philosophy

  • Renaissance sculptors studied classical statues dug up in Rome, copying the balanced pose that put weight on one leg.

    Art

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