CLASSICS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does classics mean? 

• CLASSICS (noun)
  The noun CLASSICS has 1 sense:

1. study of the literary works of ancient Greece and Rome

  Familiarity information: CLASSICS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLASSICS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Study of the literary works of ancient Greece and Rome

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

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

literary study (the humanistic study of literature)

Derivation:

classicist (a student of ancient Greek and Latin)

 Context examples 

The critics were unanimous in the belief that it would take its place with those two classics by two great writers, "The Bottle Imp" and "The Magic Skin."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“I am extremely happy to hear it. Although a mind like my friend Copperfield's'—to Uriah and Mrs. Heep—“does not require that cultivation which, without his knowledge of men and things, it would require, still it is a rich soil teeming with latent vegetation—in short,” said Mr. Micawber, smiling, in another burst of confidence, “it is an intellect capable of getting up the classics to any extent.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)