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- pronunciation:
- eIn
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adjective |
| definition 1: |
When something is very, very old, we sometimes call it ancient. Something that is ancient is often more than a thousand years old.
Jason's family visited some ancient places when they were in Africa. It was fun to imagine how people lived thousands of years ago.
- synonyms:
- antique, old
- antonyms:
- brand-new, new
- similar words:
- aged
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| definition 2: |
Something ancient is a thing that existed or happened a very, very long time ago, like an ancient kingdom or an ancient tribe of people. When you read about an "ancient country," that country might still exist now--like Egypt or Greece--but you are reading about that country the way it was maybe thousands of years ago.
It's amazing that people in ancient China made paper two thousand years ago."Zeus" was one of the gods of ancient Greece. He was the most powerful of all the gods.- synonyms:
- archaic
- antonyms:
- modern
- similar words:
- antique, classical, prehistoric
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| related words: |
old-fashioned |
| derivation: |
ancientness (n.) |
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