Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
Synonyymit
Lyhenteet
Määritelmät
Adjektiivi
- Having lasted from a remote period; having been of long duration; of great age, very old.
- Existent or occurring in time long past, usually in remote ages; belonging to or associated with antiquity; old, as opposed to modern.
- (history) Relating to antiquity as a primarily European historical period; the time before the Middle Ages.
- (obsolete) Experienced; versed.
- (obsolete) Former; sometime.
Substantiivi
Esimerkit
- ‘I understand that the district was considered a sort of sanctuary,’ the Chief was saying. ‘An Alsatia like the ancient one behind the Strand, or the Saffron Hill before the First World War. […]’
- an ancient city; an ancient forest
- Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.
- Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.
- an ancient author; an ancient empire
- Though [he] was the youngest brother, yet he was the most ancient in the business of the realm.
- They mourned their ancient leader lost.
- I got all things ready as he had directed, and waited the next morning with the boat washed clean, her ancient and pendants out, and everything to accommodate his guests..
- Junius and Andronicus [...] in Christianity [...] were his ancients.
Taivutusmuodot
| Monikko | ancients |
| Komparatiivi | ancienter |
| Komparatiivi | more ancient |
| Superlatiivi | ancientest |
| Superlatiivi | most ancient |