ancient

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Having lasted from a remote period; having been of long duration; of great age, very old.

   “an ancient city”

2. sıfat Existent or occurring in time long past, usually in remote ages; belonging to or associated with antiquity; old, as opposed to modern.

   “an ancient author”

3. sıfat Relating to antiquity as a primarily European historical period; the time before the Middle Ages.
4. sıfat Experienced; versed.

   “approved by the consent of the moste ancient doctors of the Churche [part of the book title]”

5. sıfat Former; sometime.

   “They mourned their ancient leader lost.”

6. isim 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.”

7. isim 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.”

8. isim One of the senior members of the Inns of Court or of Chancery.
9. isim A senior; an elder; a predecessor.

   “Junius and Andronicus […] in Christianity […] were his ancients.”

10. isim 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, […]”

11. isim The bearer of a flag; ensign.