Usually means: Old linguistic form, now rare.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word archaism:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. archaism: Merriam-Webster
  2. archaism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. archaism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. archaism: Collins English Dictionary
  5. archaism: Vocabulary.com
  6. archaism: Wordnik
  7. archaism: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. archaism: Wiktionary
  9. archaism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. archaism: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. archaism: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Archaism, archaism: Dictionary.com
  13. Archaism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Archaism: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. archaism: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. archaism: Rhymezone
  17. Archaism: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. archaism: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. archaism: FreeDictionary.org
  20. archaism: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. archaism: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. archaism: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  23. archaism: Merriam-Webster

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples (No longer online)
  2. ARCHAISM: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. archaism: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. archaism: Encyclopedia

(Note: See archaisms as well.)

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noun:  The adoption or imitation of archaic words or style.
noun:  An archaic word, style, etc.

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