Ancient
Meanings and phrases
ancient
- belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire
- very old
ancient
- a very old person; antediluvian
- a person who lived in ancient times
Ancient Greek
- the Greek language prior to the Roman Empire
n.
- impressive monuments created in the ancient world that were regarded with awe; Seven Wonders of the World
n.
- a history of the ancient world
- knowledge of some recent fact or event that has become so commonly known that it has lost its original pertinence
- This land is a museum of man's ancient history.
- Not much is known about the ancient history of Kandalloor.
- The series also references contemporary and ancient history.
n.
- small slow-growing pine of western United States similar to the bristlecone pine; chocolate brown bark in plates and short needles in bunches of 5; crown conic but becoming rough and twisted; oldest plant in the world growing to 5000 years in cold semidesert mountain tops; Pinus longaeva
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- Fertilization was not understood in ancient times.
- Minerals of copper were known from ancient times.
- Kites have been flown in China since ancient times.
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- Hit is identified with the ancient city of Eitha.
- Kalavryta is built near the ancient city of Cynaetha.
- Pula is located near the ancient city of Nora.
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- Some chose the names of their most ancient known ancestor.
- It is considered the most ancient and beloved of Polish traditions.
- The key is the coast-hugging requirement of most ancient navigation.
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- In the ancient world, it was known as Chalkis.
- The ships were among the largest vessels in the ancient world.
- It was one of the most fertile and rich parts of the ancient world.
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- He is a scholar of Nyaya & other ancient Indian shastras.
- There are remains of two other ancient bridges both up- and downstream.
- After Homer, Aeschylus, Pindar, and other ancient Greek writers use the name.
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- The ancient name of Keriya was Ganmi (Gyuymi, Umi).
- The village's ancient name was "Llanfair Betws Geraint".
- Its ancient name may have been either Karana or Qattara.
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- Zhangjiang was an ancient town with a long history.
- Nearby is the site of the ancient town of Cantanus.
- Awbube is an ancient town in the Awbare district.
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- Kingsley was a township in Frodsham ancient parish.
- It was part of the ancient parish of St Andrew Holborn.
- The area was part of the ancient parish of Trevethin, in Monmouthshire.
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- Nonacris Nonacris or Nonakris () was a town of ancient Arcadia in the region of Pheneatis northwest of Pheneus, situated in what is now Achaea, southern Greece.
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- Her repertoire included ancient and modern folk songs.
- The name is rendered as Μαγνησία in ancient and modern Greek language.
- They have been created by nearly every civilization, ancient and modern.
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- Other ancient sources give similarly large numbers.
- According to ancient sources, it was an armed dance.
- No information on the bridge survives from ancient sources.
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- Detinue also replaced the more ancient action of res adiratae.
- The more ancient and most informative are cuneiform tablets, ca.
- The Guardians must face another, more ancient enemy: Dark Mother!
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- Incubation was practised by many ancient cultures.
- Like many ancient temples its inside is dark.
- The Samanids also revived many ancient Persian festivals.
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- Temporally, it was a very ancient civilization.
- Maritime History of aborigines is very ancient.
- The village is very ancient and named in the "Aeneid".
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- Dharma, in these ancient texts, also takes a ritual meaning.
- He describes his writing and speaking style as "mind-jazz on ancient texts".
- In the ancient texts, Budha is linked to three steps of the Hindu god Vishnu.
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- The shrine of Sabarimala is an ancient temple.
- There is an ancient temple in Puthiyedam.
- The campus is close to the ancient temple town of Srivilliputhur.
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- Yamas are related to Niyamas in ancient and medieval era Indian texts.
- None of these holds true for what ancient and medieval Daoists were about.
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- It has also been scheduled as an ancient monument.
- The site is a scheduled ancient monument.
- It is a scheduled ancient monument.
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- As a result, its ancient woodland character has survived.
- They are associated with ancient woodland.
- The site has ancient woodland with typical woodland flora.
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- Together they comprise most of the ancient manuscripts.
- Most ancient manuscripts of the Greek New Testament have this reading.
- Thousands of ancient manuscripts in the National Library were destroyed under Saddam's command.
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- Moreover, the ancient capital lent its name to Nara period.
- The ruins of the ancient capital and forts still exist at Hatuwagadhi.
- The area where his ancient capital was Manu Arama today called Mannar District.
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- Cheesemaking is an ancient tradition in most Alpine countries.
- 61b), the Crœsus of his time, he was, according to ancient tradition (Meg.
- An ancient tradition of making bere-based homebrew survives until this day on the island.
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- Ballyroan is an ancient settlement, though its origins are obscure.
- It is an ancient settlement whose roots reach back to the early Stone Age.
- The ancient settlement of Charklik was located in what is today Ruoqiang County.
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- Olmo al Brembo is an ancient village built along Strada Priula.
- Kurli is a big and ancient village.
- Hombori is an ancient village of the Dogon people; its exact age is unknown.
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- It thus became one of the first scheduled ancient monuments.
- It has been registered as one of the ancient monuments of Bangkok.
- On March 18, 1975 it was registered as one of the ancient monuments of Bangkok.
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- Several instances of popular etymology are attested from ancient authors.
- According to the ancient authors, the Boii arrived in northern Italy by crossing the Alps.
- These are referred to by a number of ancient authors, including Pausanius (III, 16: 10-11).
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- Noricum is the ancient site of modern Austria.
- The ancient site remains in it as a ruin.
- Xinjiekou is an ancient site in Nanjing.
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- Drumacoo was located in the ancient kingdom of Uí Fiachrach Aidhne.
- It is a Historical place being an ancient kingdom of kings of Pal dynasty.
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- It is also home to several ancient Roman ruins.
- It is mentioned in several ancient writings.
- The willow tree appears in several ancient Greek myths and rituals.
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- The area around Ağva was a part of ancient Bythinia.
- The area around Kanazawa was part of ancient Kaga Province.
- The area of present-day Iwaki was part of ancient Mutsu Province.
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- They evolved from ancient civilizations in the region.
- Many ancient civilizations alloyed metals for purely aesthetic purposes.
- "Empires Apart" allows the player to control any of six ancient civilizations.
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- Behind the apse is visible the ancient church apse.
- Friendly, all-age congregation worshipping in an ancient church with a most unusual groundplan.
- Monte Budello was home to an ancient church, detached from Monteveglio in around the 8th century.
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- The chapel is purportedly built on ancient ruins.
- The village was founded in a place full of ancient ruins.
- Marshall receives a telepathic message begging for help and finds himself in ancient ruins.
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- It now holds the Dragomirna museum of ancient art.
- It is an ancient art and needs to be preserved as well as nurtured.
- The collections comprise three sections: archeology, ancient art and contemporary art.
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- Incubation was practised by many ancient cultures.
- Some ancient cultures promoted gleaning as an early form of a welfare system.
- Long-distance trade between the ancient cultures of Mesoamerica was increasing.
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- In Zeila a clan called Harla claims to be related to the ancient people.
- Meteoric iron was very rare and valuable, and difficult for ancient people to work.
- Sittaceni The Sittaceni were an ancient people dwelling along the Palus Maeotis in antiquity.
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- The site is a scheduled ancient monument.
- It thus became one of the first scheduled ancient monuments.
- It is a scheduled ancient monument.
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- Relations between India and Italy date back to ancient times.
- The earliest known flower arranging dates back to ancient Egypt.
- However, wine flavoured with wormwood goes back to ancient Rome.
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- He was a professor of ancient languages in 1917.
- Instead it taught high-status ancient languages (Greek and Latin) and their cultures.
- Only the ancient languages curriculum came down to a close vote, passing by a margin of 8–7.
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- In both ancient and later art, Cupid is often shown riding a dolphin.
- There are many other small tombs which were connected to this complex by both ancient and modern passages.
- As in both ancient Greece and Rome, inconvenient new-borns were commonly killed by exposure to the elements.
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- Among many ancient writers, Moses was seen as an Egyptian rather than a Jew.
- According to ancient writers Demosthenes called Alexander, "Margites" () and a boy.
- The large number of references to it by other ancient writers shows how influential the work was.
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- Ship camouflage was occasionally used in ancient times.
- Sundials were widely used in ancient times.
- Algorithms were later used in ancient Hellenistic mathematics.
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- Matunga is a known haven for ancient temples.
- Like many ancient temples its inside is dark.
- Remnants of ancient temples are seen at different places.
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- The site is a scheduled ancient monument.
- It is a scheduled ancient monument.
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- There are also other ancient sites including Tapachula and Tepcatán, and Pijijiapan.
- Many ancient sites were discovered on the shores of the gulf dated to up to nine thousand years old.
- He discovered the treasures excavated from Pompeii and other ancient sites, and entirely changed his style.
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- Both these ancient buildings still exist in Meerut.
- From 1933 to 1935 he travelled with his father in Palestine, helping survey ancient buildings.
- Most of the ancient buildings and structures at Sarnath were damaged or destroyed by the Turks.
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- The school has six houses, named after ancient cities.
- These ancient cities started producing coins from 550BCE to 510BCE.
- Many ancient cities have names such as "Mudraya"/"Musraya"/"Thinis".
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- Khetaka in used as a name of a region surrounding the place in ancient literature.
- This is the only evocation in the ancient literature of the Parthenon's decoration.
- The study of Chinese ancient literature is one of the key studies in Hubei Province.
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- Temporally, it was a very ancient civilization.
- Thus, according to them, Lemuria could not have hosted an ancient civilization.
- Elam was a "pre-Iranic" ancient civilization located to the east of Mesopotamia.
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- Paleoclimatology is the study of ancient climates.
- The study of ancient documents in general is called paleography.
- The Roman monuments of his native town very early attracted Gaston Boissier to the study of ancient history.
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- The ring was first found in ancient Latgalian lands.
- All of these strategies are found in ancient economies including Ptolemaic Egypt.
- Evidence of this belief has also been found in ancient India, Egypt, Japan, and China.
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- This according to Theo Siebenberg might indicate the ancient family's priestly connections.
- Here are buried several members of the ancient family of Shafto, the earliest mention of whom is in 1240.
- The Zapotec languages belong to a language family called Oto-manguean, an ancient family of Mesoamerican languages.
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- Lady Charlotte Guest published "Mabinogion", a collection of ancient Celtic stories from Wales.
- He donated his collection of ancient artifacts to the National Archaeological Museum in Athens in 1890.
- The collection of ancient glass objects is one of the four largest ancient glass collections in the world.
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- They uncover and break open an ancient stone "temple".
- The village is made up of a few old farmhouses (Finca) and an ancient stone defence tower.
- Nearby are the ancient stone ruins of Loropéni, added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2009.
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- Purakkad was known as Burkkare in ancient time.
- In ancient time Rajnota came under the Matsya Kingdom.
- Actually at ancient time Nargho is called Rajgardh Nargho.
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- His paintings reflect the conserved and ancient traditions, the beauty and spirit of old times.
- Many other legitimate Nihon jujutsu Ryu exist but are not considered koryu (ancient traditions).
- It combines harmoniously elements of the liturgy and of popular piety, ancient traditions and innovation.
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- The celebration of funeral games was common to a number of ancient civilizations.
- These are referred to by a number of ancient authors, including Pausanius (III, 16: 10-11).
- There are a number of ancient hamams in Baku dating back to the 12th, 14th and 18th centuries.
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- The breed appears to be of ancient origin.
- Clan Moffat Clan Moffat is a Lowland Scottish clan of ancient origin.
- An ancient origin for the single stranded circular DNA viruses has been proposed.