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 +[[Image:The Artist Moved by the Grandeur of Ancient Ruins.jpg|thumb|left|200px|''[[The Artist's Despair Before the Grandeur of Ancient Ruins]]'' (1778-80) by [[Henry Fuseli]]]]
 +[[Image:Western face of the Greek Parthenon.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[1872]] [[photograph]] of the western face of the [[Greek]] [[Parthenon]]]]
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-:"[[Fear]] is the most powerful [[emotion]] in the [[human race]] and fear of the [[unknown]] is probably the most [[ancient]]. You're dealing with stuff that everybody has felt; from being little babies we're frightened of the [[dark]], we're frightened of the unknown. If you're making a [[horror film]] you get to play with the [[audience]]s [[feeling]]s" -- [[John Carpenter]]+'''Ancient''' refers to something having lasted from a remote period; having been of long duration, of great age, very [[old]] as in ''an ancient city''; or; existent or occurring in time long past, usually in remote ages, belonging to or associated with [[antiquity]], [[old]], as opposed to [[modern]].
 +==Etymology==
-[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{{PAGENAMEE}}] [Apr 2007]+From Middle English ''auncyen'', from Old French ''ancien'' (“old”), from Latin root *''anteanus'', from ''ante'' (“before”). Compare [[antique]].
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 +==Antonyms==
 +* [[Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns]]
 +* [[Ancient history]]
 +* [[Antique]]
 +* [[Antiquary]]
 +* [[Antiquity]]
 +* [[Modern]]
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Ancient refers to something having lasted from a remote period; having been of long duration, of great age, very old as in an ancient city; or; existent or occurring in time long past, usually in remote ages, belonging to or associated with antiquity, old, as opposed to modern.

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From Middle English auncyen, from Old French ancien (“old”), from Latin root *anteanus, from ante (“before”). Compare antique.

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