Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of ancient is as below...

Shade :: Shade (n.) The soul after its separation from the body; -- so called because the ancients it to be perceptible to the sight, though not to the touch; a spirit; a ghost; as, the shades of departed heroes..

Teutonic :: Teutonic (n.) The language of the ancient Germans; the Teutonic languages, collectively..

Anciently :: Anciently (adv.) In an ancient manner.

Methodist :: Methodist (n.) One of an ancient school of physicians who rejected observation and founded their practice on reasoning and theory.

Obolus :: Obolus (n.) An ancient weight, the sixth part of a drachm..

Punic :: Punic (a.) Of or pertaining to the ancient Carthaginians.

Enharmonical :: Enharmonical (a.) Of or pertaining to that one of the three kinds of musical scale (diatonic, chromatic, enharmonic) recognized by the ancient Greeks, which consisted of quarter tones and major thirds, and was regarded as the most accurate..

Dacian :: Dacian (n.) A native of ancient Dacia.

Score :: Score (n.) A distance of twenty yards; -- a term used in ancient archery and gunnery.

Lyre :: Lyre (n.) A stringed instrument of music; a kind of harp much used by the ancients, as an accompaniment to poetry..

Phyle :: Phyle (n.) A local division of the people in ancient Athens; a clan; a tribe.

Rhapsodist :: Rhapsodist (n.) Anciently, one who recited or composed a rhapsody; especially, one whose profession was to recite the verses of Hormer and other epic poets..

Archaean :: Archaean (a.) Ancient; pertaining to the earliest period in geological history.

Eparch :: Eparch (n.) In ancient Greece, the governor or perfect of a province; in modern Greece, the ruler of an eparchy..

Discumbency :: Discumbency (n.) The act of reclining at table according to the manner of the ancients at their meals.

Paleotechnic :: Paleotechnic (a.) Belonging to, or connected with, ancient art..

Talent :: Talent (v. t.) Among the ancient Greeks, a weight and a denomination of money equal to 60 minae or 6,000 drachmae. The Attic talent, as a weight, was about 57 lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination of silver money, its value was ?243 15s. sterling, or about $1,180..

Cancer :: Cancer (n.) Formerly, any malignant growth, esp. one attended with great pain and ulceration, with cachexia and progressive emaciation. It was so called, perhaps, from the great veins which surround it, compared by the ancients to the claws of a crab. The term is now restricted to such a growth made up of aggregations of epithelial cells, either without support or embedded in the meshes of a trabecular framework..

Vitruvian :: Vitruvian (a.) Of or pertaining to Vitruvius, an ancient Roman architect..

Lusitanian :: Lusitanian (a.) Pertaining to Lusitania, the ancient name of the region almost coinciding with Portugal..

Random Fonts

Most Popular