Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - ancient

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Ancient means belonging to the distant past, especially to the period in history before the end of the Roman Empire. They believed ancient Greece and Rome were vital sources of learning. ADJ: ADJ n • anciently Salisbury Plain was known anciently as Ellendune. ADV 2. Ancient means very old, or having existed for a long time. ...ancient Jewish tradition. ADJ: usu ADJ n