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Vocabulary
CLASSIC OR CLASSICAL?
Key
Classic is related to:
- things that serve as a standard, model or guide (for example, the classic model of evolution)
- things of enduring interest, quality or style (classic cars, classic clothes, classic rock, a classic design)
- typicality (He's late again, that's just classic!)
Classical is related to:
- things characteristic of Greek and Roman antiquity (for example, classical literature, classical languages, classical cultures)
- the formally and artistically more sophisticated types of music (classical music includes symphonies, operas, sonatas)
- things that serve as a standard, model or guide (for example, the classic model of evolution)
- things of enduring interest, quality or style (classic cars, classic clothes, classic rock, a classic design)
- typicality (He's late again, that's just classic!)
Classical is related to:
- things characteristic of Greek and Roman antiquity (for example, classical literature, classical languages, classical cultures)
- the formally and artistically more sophisticated types of music (classical music includes symphonies, operas, sonatas)
- classic
I have a classical car(wrong, because there were no cars in antiquity). I have an MG, it's a classic car.
I have a book of classic Tuscan recipes (recipes typical of a region or that act as standard or guide).
- classical
I have a book of classical recipes (recipes of antiquity).
He only listens to classical music.
We thank Francis Dixon-Clarke (from Sao
Paulo, Brazil) for his contribution.