(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.
(a.) Old; that has been of long duration; of long standing; of great age; as, an ancient forest; an ancient castle.
(a.) Known for a long time, or from early times; -- opposed to recent or new; as, the ancient continent.
(a.) Dignified, like an aged man; magisterial; venerable.
(a.) Experienced; versed.
(a.) Former; sometime.
(n.) Those who lived in former ages, as opposed to the moderns.
(n.) An aged man; a patriarch. Hence: A governor; a ruler; a person of influence.
(n.) A senior; an elder; a predecessor.
(n.) One of the senior members of the Inns of Court or of Chancery.
(n.) An ensign or flag.
(n.) The bearer of a flag; an ensign.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bobbing in warming waters, this ancient ice fossil will be gone in a couple of weeks.
(2) This is the first archaeological evidence of operative dentistry in ancient Israel, as well as the earliest date for this specific treatment in the world.
(3) And that ancient Basque cultural gem – the mysterious language with its odd Xs, Ks and Ts – will be honoured at every turn in a city where it was forbidden by Franco.
(4) Audiences were disappointed that the love scenes between Taylor and Burton that had been the talk of modern Rome were not repeated with so much passion in those of ancient Rome.
(5) The exact purpose of the complex is a mystery, though it is clearly ancient.
(6) Last week Isis bulldozed the ancient city of Nimrud , also near Mosul, which the militant group conquered in a lightning advance last summer.
(7) Stonehenge stood at the heart of a sprawling landscape of chapels, burial mounds, massive pits and ritual shrines, according to an unprecedented survey of the ancient grounds.
(8) Then there are the divisions of ethnicity, faith and caste, the ancient social hierarchy prevalent in much of south Asia.
(9) Further south is Ghadames, one of the most ancient settlements in north Africa , which Unesco calls “the pearl of the desert”.
(10) The rich ethnopharmacological descriptions in the ancient books of herbal remedy and those scattered in the folklore medicine contribute the possibility of this approach.
(11) A radiologic-pathologic correlative investigation of the normal age-related alterations in the spinous processes and intervening soft tissues was performed using cadaveric spines and both ancient and modern macerated vertebral specimens.
(12) In a ruling rejecting any claims to the "spoils of war," New York's highest court concluded Thursday that an ancient gold tablet must be returned to the German museum that lost it in the Second world war .
(13) The country’s other attractions include a burning pit at “the door to hell” in the Darvaza crater, and rarely seen stretches of the silk road, the region’s ancient trade route.
(14) Furthermore, it also witnesses the great resistance of the organism of ancient people in Latvia in cases of surgical intervention.
(15) The centre of an ancient Greek city state was its agora – a place of assembly, for the exchange of ideas among the free-born as well as of goods.
(16) A treasure trove of more than £1.7bn-worth of old masters paintings, Greek, Roman and Egyptian antiquities, ancient weapons and prehistoric archaeological items were allowed to be sold overseas in the year to May 2013, according to official statistics issued by the government .
(17) In ancient Rome and during the Renaissance compression by means of leaden plates was a well-known treatment of cancer.
(18) In the ancient specimens, 70% or less was extractable.
(19) The food of an ancient person requires a special attention: it must be soft and easily chewed.
(20) Throughout ancient Egyptian history, rulers changed capitals to enforce a sense of national renewal or unity – a trend that began with the first purpose-built capital of a united Egypt , some 5,000 years ago.
Shekel
Definition:
(n.) An ancient weight and coin used by the Jews and by other nations of the same stock.
(n.) A jocose term for money.
Example Sentences:
(1) I have already instructed to stop about 30m shekels (£6.3m) in funding to five UN bodies that are especially hostile to Israel ... and there is more to come,” he said, without giving any further details.
(2) Construction costs are expected to vastly exceed the 1.3bn-shekel (£224m) budget.
(3) What can a few shekels do at the end of the day?” Hanan asks.
(4) Then the Red Cross got in contact and said he was in an Israeli prison.” There, Mohammed received two salaries: the 400 shekels a month paid to prisoners by the Palestinian Authority, and another 400 from prison work.
(5) Olmert was found guilty in 2014 of two bribery charges – accepting 500,000 shekels (£90,000) from developers of a Jerusalem real estate project and 60,000 shekels in a separate land deal.
(6) Stanley Fischer, Israel's central bank governor (3 October) There is no doubt that without intervention the shekel would be much stronger.
(7) Chicken – this large one cost 60 shekels (£10.60) – is a once-a-week treat.
(8) The prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, said the decision by his rightwing cabinet to allocate the extra 70 million shekels was in response to concerns about the security of existing Israeli settlements.
(9) The family say they receive 1,500 shekels (£250), from the Hamas government, approximately every three months.
(10) Ruling in December on his appeal, the supreme court said it had not been proven beyond a reasonable doubt that Olmert had solicited the 500,000 shekels, and cut his jail term to 18 months.
(11) According to the central bureau of statistics, 41% of Israelis are in a constant state of overdraft with more than a third owing at least 10,000 shekels (£1,650), and most blaming the high cost of living.
(12) They never reach 10 shekels a day,” says Diab, who adds: “I don’t support Fatah or Hamas – they don’t do anything for the population … We just crave a normal life, like anyone outside of Gaza.
(13) Now the company has demanded payment of the bill, which has risen to 9m shekels including interest.
(14) A virgin automatically becomes the wife of her rapist, who is then required to pay the victim’s father 50 shekels for the loss of his property rights.
(15) Roi's monthly take-home pay of 5,500 shekels (£940) went on nursery fees for their two young daughters, she said.
(16) Five thousand years ago, a shekel was a unit of weight – usually barley.
(17) The ministerial committee for legislation passed two bills, one of which limits all funding for non-governmental organisations from foreign bodies, including the United Nations, to 20,000 shekels (£3,300) a year.
(18) The Israeli prime minister unveiled the proposal during a tour of the Jordan border area in Israel’s south, adding that the project – which would cost billions of shekels – would also be aimed at solving the problem of Hamas infiltration tunnels from Gaza, a recent source of renewed concern.
(19) You can’t pass the checkpoint with a shekel [coin] let alone a knife.
(20) The church, which attracts more than 1 million pilgrims each year, has been issued with a 9m shekel (£1.5m) water bill, backdated 15 years to when the supply was taken over by a new company, Hagihon.