ancient
31ancient — adj. VERBS ▪ be, look ADVERB ▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc. ▪ incredibly …
32ancient — an·cient || eɪnʃənt adj. very old, antique, archaic n. person who lived in the distant past, member of an ancient people (such as the ancient Greeks) …
33ancient — ancient1 adjective belonging to or originating in the very distant past. ↘chiefly humorous very old. noun 1》 archaic or humorous an old man. 2》 (the ancients) the people of ancient times, especially the classical Greeks and Romans. Phrases the… …
34ancient*/*/ — [ˈeɪnʃ(ə)nt] adj 1) very old an ancient city/book/tradition[/ex] 2) relating to a period of history a very long time ago the ancient Greeks/Britons/Egyptians[/ex] …
35ancient — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. aged, venerable; antique, antiquated; archaic, hoary. See age, oldness.Ant., recent, modern, new. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Very old] Syn. antique, antiquated, aged; see old 1 , 2 , 3 , old… …
36ancient — adj 1. primeval, primal, prehistoric, pre glacial, preadamic, Noachian, Noachiac, Noachical, antediluvian, before the Flood or Deluge; eolithic, Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic; pristine, early, earliest, primitive, primordial, primigenial. 2 …
37ancient — Kahiko; mauliauhonua (rare). ♦ Ancient times, wā kahiko, kumupa a, kuapapa …
38Ancient Egypt — was an ancient civilization in eastern North Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern nation of Egypt. The civilization began around 3150 BC [Only after 664 BC are dates secure. See Egyptian… …
39Ancient history — Ancient redirects here. For other uses, see Ancient (disambiguation). The times before writing belong either to protohistory or to prehistory. Ancient history is the study of the written past [Crawford, O. G. S. (1927). Antiquity. [Gloucester,… …
40Ancient Israelite cuisine — refers to the food eaten by the ancient Israelites during a period of over a thousand years, from the beginning of the Israelite presence in the Land of Israel at the beginning of the Iron Age until the Roman period. The dietary staples were… …
