noun
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A person who is very old.
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A person who lived in ancient times.
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One of the senior members of the Inns of Court or of Chancery.
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A senior; an elder; a predecessor.
adjective
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Having lasted from a remote period; having been of long duration; of great age, very old.
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an ancient city an ancient forest
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Existent or occurring in time long past, usually in remote ages; belonging to or associated with antiquity; old, as opposed to modern.
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an ancient author an ancient empire
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(history) Relating to antiquity as a primarily European historical period; the time before the Middle Ages.
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Experienced; versed.
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Former; sometime.
Examples of ancient in a Sentence
It looked ancient, and he opened it carefully.
The ancient world was a cruel place.
It is said that in ancient China, doctors were paid when their patients were well.
The power of an Ancient is beyond anything humans can understand.
Deliver me from a city built on the site of a more ancient city, whose materials are ruins, whose gardens cemeteries.
The soulless, ancient intelligence there was as fathomless as the night sky.
The Russians retreat and abandon their ancient capital.
Greece, ancient Greece, exercised a mysterious fascination over me.
So according to history it has been found from the most ancient times, and so it is to our own day.
He was neither ancient nor ugly, with familiar dark eyes and hair and roughly hewn features.
His ancient, rusted Camaro was illegally parked in front of the building.
Gabe didn't know which way the Ancient would go.
One word from me, one movement of my hand, and that ancient capital of the Tsars would perish.
If Andre the Ancient was still around, he'd be able to help you with the demons.
His eyes were so cold and ancient.
The very well documented corn dole of ancient Rome is one of many cases.
Plus, we have powers formerly attributed to the ancient gods; we can fly, talk to people in other places, and see what is happening elsewhere.
She has the power of ancient healers to return to life that which otherwise wouldn't live.
I must tell you, mon cher," he continued in the sad and measured tones of a man who intends to tell a long story, "that our name is one of the most ancient in France."
He had climbed the high mountains in Switzerland and visited beautiful churches in Italy and France, and he saw a great many ancient castles.
Gabe distrusted the Ancient father of the Council as much as he did Darkyn.
I am still an Ancient.
Good. We're bringing all the souls to this one and sending everyone but five guards to the Ancient Tamer.
Many of the treatments of the ancient world had high degrees of efficacy, all obtained without access to any modern knowledge or equipment.
Beat Fitzgerald in the election and then start your term of office chasing down some ancient murder if you want.
He pushed open the fourth door, walking into a large room stacked from floor to ceiling with ancient tablets, manuscripts, and books.
Even the younger Guardians referred to him by the ancient title that meant my king.
The man looked like an ancient Greek prince with blond hair and chiseled features.
My favorite cookbook, Apicius, is a 1,500-year-old collection of recipes from ancient Rome.
But I must not waste my time wishing idle wishes; and after all my ancient friends are very wise and interesting, and I usually enjoy their society very much indeed.
Darkyn was lean and wiry, his youthful looks at odds with the ancient intelligence in his black eyes.
It was a new one, recently made by the Ancient Immortal that Gabriel hired to help, indicating another of his dealers had defected.
Not many people thought differently of the first Ancient Immortal, who had led the Council with six of his sons for many years before being killed.
Instead of pointing to the four directions, its edges were lined with ancient symbols he took to be writing from the time-before-time.
He's the least friendly Ancient I've ever met.
Rhyn said nothing, aware the penalty for an Ancient killing another Ancient was death-death and eternal Hell.
Ancient scepticism was frankly opposed to religious belief.
It is one of the most ancient towns in the north of Scotland.
They emerged through a back door into a massive foyer made of white marble and limestone with ancient carvings on the walls and statues positioned throughout.
From the 6th century, after the fall of the Ostrogothic power, and the establishment of that of Byzantium in its place in south Italy, the name Calabria was applied to the whole of the south Italian possessions of the Eastern empire, and the name-of the Brittii entirely disappeared; and after the eastern peninsula (the ancient Calabria) had been taken by the Lombards about A.D.
The ancient rival of Venice, Genoa, was likewise far gone in decline.
Here you find articles in the encyclopedia on topics related to Ancient Mesopotamia.
The part played by Egypt proper in the ensuing anti-Assyrian combinations is not clearly known; with a number of petty dynasts fomenting discontent and revolt, there was an absence -of cohesion in that ancient empire previous to the rise of the Ethiopian dynasty.
The earlier Persian kings acknowledged the various religions of the petty peoples; they were also patrons of their temples and would take care to preserve an ancient right of asylum or the privileges of long-established cults.'
Biblical, or rather Palestinian, thought has been brought into the world of ancient Oriental life, and this life, in spite of the various forms in which it has from time to time been shaped, still rules in the East.
It has been easy to confuse the study of the Old Testament in its relation to modern religious needs with the technical scientific study of the much edited remains of the literature of a small part of the ancient East.
Although the light thrown upon ancient conditions of life and thought has destroyed much that sometimes seems vital for the Old Testament, it has brought into relief a more permanent and indisputable appreciation of its significance, and it is gradually dispelling that pseudo-scientific literalism which would fetter the greatest of ancient Oriental writings with an insistence upon the verity of historical facts.
The ancient historians, who together cover this period, are strangely indifferent to the importance of the Jews, upon which Josephus is at pains to insist.
His capital was Caesarea Philippi, where Pan had been worshipped from ancient times, and.
In accordance with ancient custom Jerusalem welcomed the fugitive Zealots.