Ancient is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ANCIENT in dictionary:

NOUN:
• an old person
• Those who lived in former ages, as opposed to the moderns.
• An aged man; a patriarch. Hence: A governor; a ruler; a person of influence.
• A senior; an elder; a predecessor.
• One of the senior members of the Inns of Court or of Chancery.
• An ensign or flag.
• The bearer of a flag; an ensign.
• a very old person
• a person who lived in ancient times
• member of a civilized nation in the ancient world, esp a Greek, Roman, or Hebrew
ADJECTIVE:
• very old, also ANTIENT
• having been in existence for a very long time
• showing or feeling signs of age or wear
• belonging to the very distant past and no longer in existence
• an old man
• a standard, flag, or ensign.
• dating from very long ago
• Old; that happened or existed in former times, usually at a great distance of time; belonging to times long past; specifically applied to the times before the fall of the Roman empire; -- opposed to modern; as, ancient authors, literature, history; ancient days.
• Old; that has been of long duration; of long standing; of great age; as, an ancient forest; an ancient castle.
• Known for a long time, or from early times; -- opposed to recent or new; as, the ancient continent.
• Dignified, like an aged man; magisterial; venerable.
• Experienced; versed.
• Former; sometime.
• belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• of or pertaining to time long past
• one who lived in ancient times

Words related to ANCIENT

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Words that contain ANCIENT

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How to use ANCIENT in a sentence

• Following the long, crooked lanes between mud buildings, we passed these curious structures and reached the ancient wall of the city.
• Plutarch, better than any other ancient writer, affords the means of estimating the motives, the principles, the objects, of the men of the old time.
• It was enough for them that the affair of the marriage was disposed of, for a time at least, and things were permitted to drop into their ancient channels.
• It reminds one of those ancient Quakers, who, knowing themselves in the right, suffered wrongs rather than compromise their principles.
• This part of the house is ancient, and dates from medieval times.
• The word is no doubt the ancient representative of the modern Kurdistan, and means a country in which Kurds dwelt.
• The region in which the quarries existed was the most ancient seat of Pelasgic religion.
• The ancient prophets called this world, even in their time, a valley of woe.
• The cathedral church was a most ancient edifice of Byzantine architecture, which had been first a church, and then a mosque, and then a church again.
• I beseech Thee to aid and assist me at all times and under all conditions, and seek from the heaven of Thy grace Thine ancient favor.
• From the Celtae were derived the most ancient tribes of the Britons, of which the most considerable were called Brigantes.
• The Alhambra is the ancient palace of the Moorish kings, at Granada.
• The fact that the people live in caves is in itself extremely interesting, but this alone does not prove any connection between them and the ancient cliff-dwellers.
• The sons of the ancient families did not practise the arts or engage in business.
• For the mother of Eurypylus had sworn that never would she let her son go to the war unless Priam sent her the vine of gold, a gift of the gods to an ancient King of Troy.
• Hence the language is not always a sufficient indication of date, and it is possible that, under a comparatively modern form, some very ancient pieces may have been preserved.
• The Theseum, an old temple erected probably four hundred years before Christ, is the best preserved ruin of ancient Athens.
• The subject is one of special interest in ancient Ethics, as being one of the aspects of Benevolent sentiment in the Pagan world.
• In front was a great chestnut-tree, and in the roadway near were two ancient elms where saucy crows were building a nest.
• The ancient writers read him, and from their criticism it is clear that he was marked by a talent for invective, was given to sharp censure, and loved the bitter part of truth.
• Ancient CROSS with Pehlvi Inscription, preserved in the church on ST.
• Look, too, at the Jews, famous in ancient times, Now scattered on the face of the earth.
• Much of it was still standing in its ancient strength.
• The next morning the travellers visited the Mosque of Pearls, where the ancient emperors came to perform their devotions.

Similar words containing ANCI without suffix ent

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