LekhoriLekhoriHaving lasted from a remote period; having been of long duration; of great age, very old.
an ancient city
Existent or occurring in time long past, usually in remote ages; belonging to or associated with antiquity; old, as opposed to modern.
A person who is very old.
Hetty and Mrs. Piper watched them with a lynx-eyed understanding and before the ancient was well upon his road his way was blocked by Hetty.
From Middle English auncyen, from Old French ancien, from Vulgar Latin *anteānus, composed of Latin ante (“before”) + -ānus (adjective-forming suffix). The non-etymological /t/ is by analogy with the ...
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an ancient author
Relating to antiquity as a primarily European historical period; the time before the Middle Ages.
A person who lived in ancient times.
What is ancient for us was in its own time a reworking of what was ancient for the ancients.
A flag, banner, standard or ensign.
[D]iſcarded, vniuſt ſeruingmen, yonger ſonnes to yonger brothers, reuolted tapſters, and Oſtlers, tradefalne, the cankers of a calme world, and a long peace, ten times more diſhonourable ragged then an olde fazd ancient, […]