In commerce, products are named 'classic' to denote a long-standing popular version or model, to distinguish it from a newer variety.
Colloquially, an everyday occurrence (e.g. a joke or mishap) may be described in some dialects of English as 'an absolute classic'.
He applied the term to Don Quixote, of which Bowle prepared an innovative edition, such as he judged that a classic work needed.
[2] Some other examples would be the 1876 novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, the 1941 film Citizen Kane, and the 1956 song "Blue Suede Shoes" by Elvis Presley.
Lists of classics are long and wide-ranging,[citation needed] and would vary depending on personal opinion.
[5] A well known and reliable procedure, such as a demonstration of well-established scientific principle, may be described as classic: e.g. the Cartesian diver experiment.