Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
Ancient means belonging to the distant past, especially to the period in history before the end of the Roman Empire.
They believed ~ Greece and Rome were vital sources of learning.
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Salisbury Plain was known ~ly as Ellendune.
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2.
Ancient means very old, or having existed for a long time.
...~ Jewish tradition.
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