Crossword-Solution: ANCIENT 7 letters, 156 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word Word Type Definition
Ancient a. Old; that happened or existed in former times, usually at
a great distance of time; belonging to times long past; specifically
applied to the times before the fall of the Roman empire; -- opposed to
modern; as, ancient authors, literature, history; ancient days.
Ancient a. Old; that has been of long duration; of long standing; of
great age; as, an ancient forest; an ancient castle.
Ancient a. Known for a long time, or from early times; -- opposed to
recent or new; as, the ancient continent.
Ancient a. Dignified, like an aged man; magisterial; venerable.
Ancient a. Experienced; versed.
Ancient a. Former; sometime.
Ancient n. Those who lived in former ages, as opposed to the moderns.
Ancient n. An aged man; a patriarch. Hence: A governor; a ruler; a
person of influence.
Ancient n. A senior; an elder; a predecessor.
Ancient n. One of the senior members of the Inns of Court or of
Chancery.
Ancient n. An ensign or flag.
Ancient n. The bearer of a flag; an ensign.

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ANCIENT anagram ACTNINE, NICETAN

We have 156 clues for the answer “ANCIENT”

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"The Rime of the ___ Mariner" 1 answer
"___ of Days." 1 answer
Like Phoenicia 1 answer
Like Roman ruins 1 answer
Like S.T.C.'s Mariner 1 answer
Like Tyre or Nineveh 1 answer
Like dinosaurs 1 answer
Like fifteen-year-old computers 1 answer
Like the Aramaic language 1 answer
Like the Dead Sea Scrolls 1 answer
Like the Mesopotamian people 1 answer
Like the Sphinx 1 answer
Like the Zhou dynasty 1 answer
Like the mariner 1 answer
Mega-old 1 answer
Of an older world. 1 answer
Old as dirt 1 answer
Person of olden times 1 answer
Really old 1 answer
Socrates or Pythagoras, e.g. 1 answer
The A in A. O. H. 1 answer
Time-honored, as Chinese lore. 1 answer
Very old; having existed for a long time 1 answer
Very, very old 1 answer
What Iago was to Othello. 1 answer
Word for the pyramids. 1 answer
tilda swintons character in doctor strange 1 answer
From the distant past 1 answer
Far in the past 2 answers
As old as the hills 2 answers
Extremely old 2 answers
Like Stonehenge 2 answers
Long-ago 2 answers
Of interest to archaeologists 2 answers
Of times long past. 2 answers
Ogygian 2 answers
Belonging to times long past 2 answers
From long, long ago 3 answers
Like Coleridge's Mariner 3 answers
Age-old 3 answers
Old as the hills. 4 answers
Like the Parthenon 4 answers
Long gone 4 answers
Venerable one 4 answers
From way Back 5 answers
Time-honored 6 answers
CULTIVATED SINCE PREHISTORIC TIMES 10 answers
from ages past 10 answers
A VERY OLD PERSON 11 answers
olden 11 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
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Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with ANCIENT (5)

Only once his pace he slackened, Only once he paused or halted, Paused to purchase heads of arrows Of the ancient Arrow-maker, In the land of the Dacotahs, Where the Falls of Minnehaha Flash and gleam among the oak-trees, Laugh and leap into the valley.
The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991
Beyond this flood a frozen Continent Lies dark and wilde, beat with perpetual storms Of Whirlwind and dire Hail, which on firm land Thaws not, but gathers heap, and ruin seems Of ancient pile; all else deep snow and ice, A gulf profound as that _Serbonian_ Bog Betwixt _Damiata_ and mount _Casius_ old, Where Armies whole have sunk: the parching Air Burns frore, and cold performs th’ effect of Fire.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
Jupiter, Neptune, Minerva, and Momus ACCORDING to an ancient legend, the first man was made by Jupiter, the first bull by Neptune, and the first house by Minerva.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
The hill was covered on its northern side by an ancient and decaying plantation of beeches, whose upper verge formed a line over the crest, fringing its arched curve against the sky, like a mane.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
Still later, towards the end of the fourth century, forty-two of these, mainly of the Libyan section, were translated into Latin verse by one Avian, with whom the ancient history of the Fable ends.
The Fables of Aesop Aesop 1992

Quotes with ANCIENT (3)

I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep & there are no words for that.
Brian Andreas Story People: Selected Stories & Drawings of Brian Andreas
No matter how old you are now. You are never too young or too old for success or going after what you want. Here’s a short list of people who accomplished great things at different ages1) Helen Keller, at the age of 19 months, became deaf and blind. But that didn’t stop her. She was the first deaf and blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.2) Mozart was already competent on keyboard and violin; he composed from the age of 5.3) Shirley Temple was 6 when she became a mo…
Pablo
I mean, d'you know what eternity is? There's this big mountain, see, a mile high, at the end of the universe, and once every thousand years there's this little bird-""What little bird?" said Aziraphale suspiciously." This little bird I'm talking about. And every thousand years-""The same bird every thousand years?" Crowley hesitated. "Yeah," he said." Bloody ancient bird, then.""Okay. And every thousand years this bird flies-""-limps-""-flies all the way to this mountain and …
Neil Gaiman Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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