Usually means: Advocate or imitator of antiquity.
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  1. archaist: Merriam-Webster
  2. archaist: Collins English Dictionary
  3. archaist: Wiktionary
  4. Archaist, archaist: Dictionary.com
  5. Archaist: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. archaist: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  7. Archaist: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. archaist: FreeDictionary.org
  9. archaist: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. Archaist: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. archaist: Vocabulary.com
  12. archaist: Wordnik

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Definitions from Wiktionary (archaist)

▸ noun:  A person who studies archaic things; an antiquary
▸ noun:  A person who uses archaisms in language

Similar:
antiquist, archæologist, archaeologian, archaizer, archaeologer, antiquary, antiquarist, archaeologue, antiquarian, antiquitary, more...

Opposite:
modernist, contemporary, innovator

Adjectives:
exquisite, judicious, gentle, classic, gifted

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Similar:
antiquist, archæologist, archaeologian, archaizer, archaeologer, antiquary, antiquarist, archaeologue, antiquarian, antiquitary, more...

Opposite:
modernist, contemporary, innovator

Adjectives:
exquisite, judicious, gentle, classic, gifted



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