Ancient
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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]]]] | [[Image:Western face of the Greek Parthenon.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[1872]] [[photograph]] of the western face of the [[Greek]] [[Parthenon]]]] | ||
| - | [[Image:The Artist Moved by the Grandeur of Ancient Ruins.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[The Artist Moved by the Grandeur of Ancient Ruins]]'' ([[1778]]-[[1779|79]]) by [[Fuseli|Henry Fuseli]]]] | ||
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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]]. | + | '''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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| - | * [[modern]] | + | * [[Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns]] |
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| - | * [[Ancients and moderns]] | + | |
| * [[Ancient history]] | * [[Ancient history]] | ||
| * [[Antique]] | * [[Antique]] | ||
| * [[Antiquary]] | * [[Antiquary]] | ||
| * [[Antiquity]] | * [[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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Etymology
From Middle English auncyen, from Old French ancien (“old”), from Latin root *anteanus, from ante (“before”). Compare antique.
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Antonyms
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