Ancientness

  • 41antiquity — an•tiq•ui•ty [[t]ænˈtɪk wɪ ti[/t]] n. pl. ties 1) the quality of being ancient; ancientness: a bowl of great antiquity[/ex] 2) ancient times; former ages 3) anh the period of history before the Middle Ages 4) antiquities, things belonging to or… …

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  • 42ancient — /ˈeɪnʃənt / (say aynshuhnt), /ˈeɪntʃənt / (say aynchuhnt) adjective 1. of or in time long past, especially before the end of the Western Roman Empire, AD 476: ancient history. 2. dating from a remote period; of great age. 3. very old (applied to… …

  • 43antiquity — [n1] old object antique, relic, ruin; concept 259 antiquity [n2] oldness age, ancientness, antiqueness, archaicism, archaism, elderliness, hoariness, old age, venerableness; concept 715 Ant. convention, modernity, newness antiquity [n3] …

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  • 44ancient — ancient1 [ān′chənt, ān′shənt] adj. [ME auncien < OFr ancien < VL * anteanus < L ante, before: t by infl. of ENT] 1. of times long past; belonging to the early history of the world, esp. before the end of the Western Roman Empire (A.D.… …

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  • 45ancient — 1. adj. & n. adj. 1 of long ago. 2 having lived or existed long. n. archaic an old man. Phrases and idioms: ancient history 1 the history of the ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean area and the Near East before the fall of the Western… …

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  • 46oldness — noun 1. the opposite of youngness • Ant: ↑youngness • Derivationally related forms: ↑old • Hypernyms: ↑age • Hyponyms: ↑agedness, ↑senescence …

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  • 47ancientry — rē noun ( es) 1. obsolete : old people : elders 2. a. : ancientness, antiquity …

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  • 48an|cient|ry — «AYN shuhn tree», noun. Archaic. 1. the quality of being very old; ancientness. 2. old fashioned style. 3. antiquity …

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  • 49TRIKKALA — (Trikala), city in W. Thessaly, Greece. In the third and fourth centuries, Trikkala was an important Hellenistic city that probably had a Jewish population, but little is known about it. From 1421 to 1451, there were an estimated 387 Jewish… …

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