ancient
US: /ˈeɪnʃənt/, /ˈeɪntʃənt/
UK: /ˈeɪnʃənt/
UK: /ˈeɪnʃənt/
English Vietnamese dictionary
ancient /'einʃənt/
- danh từ
- xưa, cổ (trước khi đế quốc La mã tan rã)
- ancient Rome: cổ La mã
- ancient word: đời thượng cổ
- (từ cổ,nghĩa cổ) lá cờ, cờ hiệu; người cầm cờ hiệu
- (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ) tác giả cổ điển
- xưa, cổ (trước khi đế quốc La mã tan rã)
Advanced English dictionary
+ adjective
1 belonging to a period of history that is thousands of years in the past: ancient history / civilization + ancient Greece
2 very old; having existed for a very long time: an ancient oak tree + ancient monuments + (humorous) He's ancient-he must be at least fifty!
3 (the ancients) noun [pl.] the people who lived in ancient times, especially the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans
anciently adverb (rare): The area where the market was anciently held (= in ancient times).
Thesaurus dictionary
adj.
1 old, bygone, past, former, earlier, Literary olden:
In ancient times there were very few books.
2 old, antique, antediluvian, primitive, prehistoric, primeval, primordial, Noachian, Literary Ogygian:
In those ancient days man had only just come down from the trees.
3 old, old-fashioned, archaic, time-worn, aged, ageing, obsolescent, antiquated, elderly, venerable, grey, hoary, superannuated, obsolete, fossil, fossilized:
We were accosted by an ancient crone at the mouth of the cave.
Collocation dictionary
VERBS
be, look
ADV.
extremely, incredibly, very | quite | positively
The man looked positively ancient.
Concise English dictionary
ancients'eɪnʃənt
noun
+a very old person
+a person who lived in ancient times
adj.
+belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire
+very old
