I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a historic/ancient town
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Visitors can go on a tour of this historic town.
a traditional/ancient craft
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The Navajo Indians sell their jewellery and other traditional crafts.
an ancient city
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the ancient city of Jerusalem
an ancient site
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The organization maintains and restores ancient sites, castles, monuments etc.
an old/ancient legend
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You will have heard the old legend about how the rocks were formed.
an old/ancient tradition
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In rural Wales, the old traditions persisted.
an old/ancient/age-old custom
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Here on the island, many of the old customs have survived.
an old/ancient/long-standing grudge
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He said they should celebrate their achievements, not nurse old grudges.
ancient civilization (= a very old one )
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The achievements of Egypt's ancient civilization were remarkable.
ancient magic
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The place seemed full of shadows and ancient magic.
Ancient monuments
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Ancient monuments are protected by law.
early/ancient history
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He had studied ancient Roman history.
traditional/ancient culture
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The people have a traditional culture which has hardly changed in 500 years.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
very
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The basilica beside the columns is very ancient , one of the oldest in the city, founded in the fourth-century.
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This is certainly the product of very ancient traditions.
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She is, was I mean, a very ancient saint.
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Fortunately, some sediments, by rare good fortune, survive from very ancient times with little or no loss of legibility.
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These taboos against women as polluting to male sacred space are very ancient .
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Descended from the Carolingian counts and vicomtes, they possessed and exercised very ancient rights of jurisdiction over their lordships.
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She had the translucent skin of the very ancient and I would have guessed her age at not far from ninety.
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Hence we have the Law of Similars which is very ancient and predates the formulation of Homoeopathy in the eighteenth century.
■ NOUN
art
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Although not formally trained as a historian of ancient art , Ortiz's scholarship is widely respected.
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Was not the Samhailt, the ancient art of hearing the thoughts of others, bestowed on the Royal Line long ago?
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It is right that they should be given a place of honour in the history of ancient art .
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And rooted in history ... the ancient art of coppicing.
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A chance to try your hand at the ancient art of Drystone Walling.
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It is also opening up a rare advance in the ancient art of making metal alloys.
city
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Nottingham is an ancient city with a Norman castle and an excellent variety of shops, theatre and other modern amenities.
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Every day, the newspapers carried photos of tracer bullets criss-crossing the skies above ancient cities .
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Here, deep beneath the ancient City , 35 million bottles of Champagne Veuve Cliquot are slowly maturing.
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Participants will visit the Isle of Capri, then move on to Mount Vesuvio and the ancient cities that volcano destroyed.
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We visited the ancient city of Petra and rode camels.
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It was there that ancient empires and flourishing ancient cities were to be found.
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There are trips to the ancient cities of Vienna and Innsbruck.
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Walking amongst the ruins of an ancient city , for example, it is impossible to gain an overall impression of the layout.
custom
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Killing has now become more of a sport, or an adherence to an ancient custom .
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Indubitable evidences of an ancient custom of ritual regicide have been found over a great portion of the globe.
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And in the village of Marlott, following ancient custom , the young women gathered to dance every holiday.
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She sounded really respectful and seemed to have the greatest reverence for that ancient custom .
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According to ancient custom it would be possible for Sarah as wife to claim the child as her own.
forest
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The machinery of the ancient Forest courts was found at this time to be cumbrous and ineffective.
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There are also plans to log 57,500 hectares of ancient forest , containing trees of up to 600 years old.
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He vigorously applied Charles's policy of raising money by reviving the ancient Forest administration.
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Since this left them without fuel, they began to cut wood from the ancient forests .
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The purposes and administration of these ancient forests have of course changed fundamentally.
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Locked still in ancient forest dreams, they stand at significant points in the landscape.
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The decline of the dormouse has mirrored the loss of ancient forests .
history
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Its very imperfection is powerful testimony of its ancient history , a history of step-by-step change rather than of deliberate design.
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But my tale of ancient history was less than a generation old.
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For one thing, this is not ancient history .
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It has been fashionable in the last twenty years to suggest that there was in ancient history a utopian matriarchy.
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The world of Lowry's north seems to be ancient history .
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That, too, seemed like ancient history now.
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He was very fond of ancient histories , stories and epics of earlier times and heroes.
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He was so beautiful in those days - listen to me, those days, talking like it was all ancient history .
monument
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With such ancient remains, the first need is to accord them the same protection as other ancient monuments .
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Approximately 100,000 cars clog the narrow streets each day and exhaust gases are eroding the city's ancient monuments .
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Not only have UFOs nothing to do with ley lines, they have nothing to do with ancient monuments or geology.
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The camera monitoring began last September in an attempt to safeguard the ancient monument .
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It is far more important than any particular beetle or bird or ancient monument .
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There are many castles, churches, abbeys and ancient monuments and public gardens to visit.
site
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He thinks that the ancient sites were locations where altered states of consciousness could more readily occur.
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Here, like to many other ancient sites mentioned above, there is a provocative stillness.
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He started to plot lines of ancient sites and quickly got a feel for those which cropped up most frequently.
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They often fought each other and attacked humans until slain by a brave hero, frequently at an ancient site .
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Easily Accessible: Dartmoor, with its woods, tors and ancient sites , and the long coastal path provide numerous walks.
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Local, civil, and military personnel patrol or enclose ancient sites .
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Lines of enquiry suggested themselves from reported material which had accumulated over the years on possible energy effects at ancient sites .
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The club had field meetings, following leys and visiting ancient sites , a member who knew the area acting as leader.
times
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Since ancient times people have disputed the actions taken by their neighbours.
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But the methods and theory are the same as in ancient times , he said.
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Since ancient times , the rowan tree has been considered a scourge to witches.
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Only the island of Bali preserved, alongside its own traditions, the Brahman heritage of those ancient times .
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These old Lincolnshire farmhouses, especially the derelict ones, tell a fascinating story of farming life in more ancient times .
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Spirituality does not exist only in ancient times , or in books.
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Hydrogen sulphide was probably a relatively rare commodity, even in ancient times .
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Fortunately, some sediments, by rare good fortune, survive from very ancient times with little or no loss of legibility.
town
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The ancient town of Bridgwater, astride the River Parrett, is an ideal touring centre.
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Half an hour's drive away, Bury St Edmunds is a beautiful ancient town with an abbey and clock museum.
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The beauty of this ancient town is that told and new have be carefully mixed.
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The region boasts many ancient towns of interest and historic cities whose architecture reveals the splendours of the past.
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Cobalt joined the coast road and they roared along the ramparts of the ancient town .
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Crediton, 8 miles away, is an ancient town , once known for its wool industry now for its cider making.
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Eva Hendrix started to chatter in her persuasive voice while the uniformed chauffeur drove them into the ancient town of Freiburg.
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Ruth loved the ancient town of Pollensa with its quaint narrow streets and low red stone houses.
tradition
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One may on the other hand consider that the ancient traditions and methods of training for the Bar are worthy of preservation.
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At the heart of each is an ancient tradition of devotion to a statue of the Black Virgin.
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It had been a democratic country and had ancient traditions of learning and libertarianism.
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This is certainly the product of very ancient traditions .
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Eventually the ancient traditions began to dilute the ideology.
woodland
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Some of the trees in this ancient woodland have been here for more than 300 years.
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The loss of ancient woodland now means they're confined to the southern counties and Herefordshire and Worcestershire.
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Of the remaining ancient woodland , over 80 percent consists of small copses of less than 50 acres.
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Hazel catkins Witches' broom Bluebells are indicators of ancient woodland .
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Since World War 11, over half of Britain's ancient woodland has been destroyed.
world
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His conquests transformed the ancient world and ushered in the Hellenistic age of great monarchies.
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The law of the survival of the fitted governed not only primitive tribes, but the civilized cultures of the ancient world .
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It was not until the Ptolemaic period that its price fell to that obtaining elsewhere in the ancient world .
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The Olympics were not the only games in the ancient world .
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So many relics of the ancient world .
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In the ancient world , the belief was that each person was represented by a star.
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Touch-operated computer terminals are placed at strategic points allowing us, quite literally, to have the ancient world at our fingertips.
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What he most wanted to know about was not the ancient world but modern politics with its historical background.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
that's (past/ancient) history
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But that's history now the children are back in the classroom.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an ancient Greek vase
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Doc drives an ancient Ford convertible.
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He's not just old, he's ancient .
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Mum looks absolutely ancient in this picture.
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Rome is famous for its ancient monuments.
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The ancient Chinese believed that we are born with a finite amount of energy in our bodies called chi.
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the pyramids of ancient Egypt
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This refrigerator is ancient -- it's time we bought a new one.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Above the lip of the gorge he found traces of that ancient river bank.
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Here are some recent piano releases for keyboards, solo and duo, ancient and modern.
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His conquests transformed the ancient world and ushered in the Hellenistic age of great monarchies.
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I prefer the more austere skeletons of the corals that live frugal, ancient lives in the deep sea.
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The Great Forest is an ancient , vast and very varied woodland.
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The Samaritans have managed to keep only a few ancient texts.
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This is a wonderful piece of ancient machinery of indeterminate age, and consists of a crank-driven triple piston pump.
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Those assembled along the hill lines are keeping alive one of the world's most ancient and wide spread fertility rites.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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According to the ancients, seven planets circle the sun, hence the seven dwarfs.
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Among the Copernicans there was exhilaration at the thought that man, in his astronomical understanding, had now surpassed the ancients.
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The ancients staged mock battles to parallel the tempests in nature and reduce their fear of gods who warred across the sky.
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The best fuel of the ancients was wood.
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The comets that streaked the skies and scared the ancients were powered by Fenna's breath.
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To even the earliest Western visitors, the odd, boxy letters evoked the ancients.
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Was she, he wondered, trying to make another fire in the fashion of the ancients?