Crossword-Solution: ANCIENTS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ANCIENTS | anagram | CANNIEST, INSTANCE |
We have 22 clues for the answer “ANCIENTS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Plato and Aristotle, e.g. | 1 answer |
| People of classical times | 1 answer |
| People of classical antiquity | 1 answer |
| People of Graeco-Roman times (with "the"). | 1 answer |
| People from way, way, way back when | 1 answer |
| People who lived in times long past | 1 answer |
| Minoans or Medes | 1 answer |
| Medes and Minoans | 1 answer |
| Peoples of antiquity | 1 answer |
| Example used to illustrate, often used after "for" | 1 answer |
| Early Greeks and Romans. | 1 answer |
| Plutarch, Plato, Pliny et al. | 1 answer |
| Babylonians, for example. | 1 answer |
| Anagram, for instance | 1 answer |
| Aeschylus, Sophocles and Aristophanes | 1 answer |
| Socrates and Plato, e.g. | 2 answers |
| PEOPLE long dead | 2 answers |
| Patriarchs and matriarchs | 2 answers |
| Gaffers. | 2 answers |
| Graybeards | 4 answers |
| ANY OF THE EARLY PATRIARCHS WHO LIVED PRIOR TO THE NOACHIAN DELUGE | 10 answers |
| Classics. | 12 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
ARAE
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with ANCIENTS (5)
But I believed that I had already given sufficient time to languages, and likewise to the reading of the writings of the ancients, to their histories and fables.
The ancients kept the secrets of writing with their religious leaders; traveling by ship in the open sea was a hard learned and noble skill.
Beyond thirty! Romance, adventure, strange peoples, fearsome beasts—all the excitement and scurry of the lives of the twentieth century ancients that have been denied us in these dull days of peace and prosaic prosperity—all, all lay beyond thirty, the invisible barrier between the stupid, commercial present and the carefree, barbarous past.
Betteredge, I have the greatest faith in him!” Many men, many opinions, as one of the ancients said, before my time.
According to my idea, we must see in this appellation of the Red Sea a translation of the Hebrew word ‘Edom’; and if the ancients gave it that name, it was on account of the particular colour of its waters.” “But up to this time I have seen nothing but transparent waves and without any particular colour.” “Very likely; but as we advance to the bottom of the gulf, you will see this singular appearance.
Quotes with ANCIENTS (3)
To know what questions may reasonably be asked is already a great and necessary proof of sagacity and insight. For if a question is absurd in itself and calls for unnecessary answers, it not only brings disgrace to the person raising it, but may prompt an incautious listener to give absurd answers, thus presenting, as the ancients said, the laughable spectacle of one person milking a he-goat, and another holding the sieve underneath.
A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. A book that does nothing to you is dead. A baby, whether it does anything to you, represents life. If a bad fire should break out in this house and I had my choice of saving the library or the babies, I would save what is alive. Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn baby. The finest of our precision watches, the most super-colossal of our supercargo plants, don't compare wit…
The ancients were afraid that if they went to the end of the earth they would fall off and be consumed by dragons. But once we understand that Christianity is true to what is there, true to the ultimate environment - the infinite, personal God who is really there - then our minds are freed. We can pursue any question and can be sure that we will not fall off the end of the earth.
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Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, WP, WSJ.
Used 18 times in crossword archives (1946–2023).