Meaning of ancient | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Having lasted from a remote period; having been of long duration; of great age, very old.
2. Ancient, very old.
3. Existent or occurring in time long past, usually in remote ages; belonging to or associated with antiquity; old, as opposed to modern.
4. Relating to antiquity as a primarily European historical period; the time before the Middle Ages.
5. Experienced; versed.
   obsolete
6. Former; sometime.
   obsolete

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Examples

“an ancient city”

“an ancient forest”

“[P]ut the Caſe that the Nobleman of the ancienter Family does not indeed diſgrace his Dignity, but adds nothing to it; having nothing extraordinary to recommend him or diſrecommend him: Whereas the other, by his perſonal Merit, has rais'd himſelf to an equal Dignity. Which of the two in this Suppoſition deſerves the greater Eſteem?”

“'I understand that the district was considered a sort of sanctuary,' the Chief was saying. 'An Alsatia like the ancient one behind the Strand, or the Saffron Hill before the First World War. They tell me there was a recognized swag-market down here.'”

“an ancient author”

“an ancient empire”

“Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.”

“Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.”

“The ancient Greek physician Hippocrates promoted wine for various purposes, including reducing fevers and dressing wounds.”

“approved by the consent of the moste ancient doctors of the Churche [part of the book title]”

“They mourned their ancient leader lost.”

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