Synonyms for classics
clas·sics

Princeton's WordNet

1. classicsnoun

   study of the literary works of ancient Greece and Rome

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1. • Literary Study

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1. List of paraphrases for "classics":

   conventional, sutras, humanities, classical, masterpieces

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How to use classics in a sentence?

1. Coco Chanel:

   Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.

2. Roberta Pipito:

   We all love a classic Memorial Day burger or summer salad, but let’s give these classics a little twist and welcome back summer with a bang.

3. Alicia Alonso:

   We Cubans were born to dance as a people, thanks to the mix of races, the Spanish and the African, both lovers of dance, cuban dancers immediately stand out with their expressive way of performing the great classics or the moderns.

4. Virginia Slovakia Peter Sagan:

   I am very happy, I was fighting always in the Tour de France and in the summer classics I was in the front but not the best, i am very happy for one big victory like this.

5. Dave Jesteadt:

   One of the worst things that can happen to classics is that they're perceived as classics and kept in amber, we wanted to move to a nationwide celebration that really treated these as equivalent to any new Hollywood film.