BAROQUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Baroque mean? 

• BAROQUE (noun)
  The noun BAROQUE has 2 senses:

1. the historic period from about 1600 until 1750 when the baroque style of art, architecture, and music flourished in Europe

2. elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century

  Familiarity information: BAROQUE used as a noun is rare.

• BAROQUE (adjective)
  The adjective BAROQUE has 2 senses:

1. having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation

2. of or relating to or characteristic of the elaborately ornamented style of architecture, art, and music popular in Europe between 1600 and 1750

  Familiarity information: BAROQUE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BAROQUE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The historic period from about 1600 until 1750 when the baroque style of art, architecture, and music flourished in Europe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Baroque; Baroque era; Baroque period

Instance hypernyms:

age; historic period (an era of history having some distinctive feature)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

baroque; baroqueness

Hypernyms ("baroque" is a kind of...):

artistic style; idiom (the style of a particular artist or school or movement)

• BAROQUE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation

Synonyms:

baroque; churrigueresco; churrigueresque

Context example:

the building...frantically baroque

Similar:

fancy (not plain; decorative or ornamented)

Derivation:

baroqueness (elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of or relating to or characteristic of the elaborately ornamented style of architecture, art, and music popular in Europe between 1600 and 1750

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

Baroque (the historic period from about 1600 until 1750 when the baroque style of art, architecture, and music flourished in Europe)