Authentic Meaning
/ɒˈθɛn.tɪk/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjOf the same origin as claimed; genuine.
adjConforming to reality and therefore worthy of trust, reliance, or belief.
Sentence Examples
His cordiality may not be authentic.
Many authentic nobles did not have a nobiliary particle in their names.
I don't know if the painting is authentic.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The museum displayed an ____ ancient vase from the Ming dynasty.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The restaurant serves ____ Italian food that tastes like home cooking.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English authentik, from Old French autentique, from Latin authenticus, from Ancient Greek αὐθεντικός (authentikós, “authentic, genuine”), from Ancient Greek αὐθέντης (authéntēs, “perpetrator, murderer, absolute ruler”). Doublet of effendi.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"[T]here they find Ignatius, and then they beleeve him not for his ovvn Authority, but for a truths ſake, vvhich they derive from elſ vvhere: to vvhat end then ſhould they cite him as authentick for Epiſcopacie, vvhen they cannot knovv vvhat is authentick in him, but by the judgement vvhich they brought vvith them, and not by any judgement vvhich they might ſafely learne from him."
— 1641 June or July, [John Milton], Of Prelatical Episcopacy, and Whither It may be Deduc’d from the Apostolical Times by Vertue of Those Testimonies which are Alledg’d to that Purpose in Some Late Treatises: […], London: […] R[ichard] O[ulton] & G[regory] D[exter] for Thomas Underhill, […], →OCLC, page 11:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The museum displayed an ____ ancient vase from the Ming dynasty.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The restaurant serves ____ Italian food that tastes like home cooking.