(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.
Trojan
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to ancient Troy or its inhabitants.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Troy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Just before Christmas the independent Kerslake report severely criticised Birmingham city council for its dysfunctional politics and, in particular, its handling of the so-called Trojan Horse affair, in which school governors were said to have set out to bring about an Islamic agenda into the curriculum contents and the day-to-day running of some schools.
(2) The trust was drawn into the controversy by the "Trojan horse" letter which surfaced in March this year and led to Gove, the education secretary, ordering investigations.
(3) But critics see that happy, hippyish public image as a potential trojan horse for a mega-powerful industry hellbent on pursuing its self-interest.
(4) The shakeup comes after criticism that Ofsted’s current approach is debilitating for school leaders, while its unwieldy organisation has left it unable to spot damaging changes within schools involved in the Trojan horse affair, some of which Ofsted had judged to be outstanding.
(5) Park View academy, the Birmingham secondary school at the centre of the alleged Islamist plot known as Trojan horse, will be told next week that it has failed to adequately warn its pupils about extremism and that staff are intimidated by the school's leadership.
(6) He said Operation Trojan Horse was an invention by anonymous voices looking to drown out legitimate concerns raised by Muslim governors trying to push standards up at schools.
(7) Sony's positioning is more conservative, lacking the complete embrace of the possibilities of the internet, information flow and surveillance, but it continues to represent Trojan horse strategy and is '360-degree commissioning' friendly.
(8) The letter to Morgan also noted that improvements were being seen in schools in Birmingham and Tower Hamlets inspected in the wake of the Trojan Horse allegations of Islamist influence.
(9) A Catholic state school has fallen foul of controversial rules on promoting British values and guarding against extremism and radicalisation, introduced in the wake of Birmingham’s Trojan Horse affair.
(10) For the past few weeks reports have multiplied about an alleged "Islamic plot", code-named Operation Trojan Horse, to take control of 25 state schools in Birmingham and run them on strict religious principles.
(11) It’s a mistake to think of Impress as some jerry-built Trojan horse.
(12) Photograph: Andrew Fox Five years on and despite a major heart surgery, a bitter, public falling-out with the government and the so-called Trojan Horse controversy in Birmingham schools, Wilshaw is proud of his record at Ofsted.
(13) A few years before Lady Thatcher and Mr Letwin became obsessed with the poll tax, the American historian Barbara Tuchman wrote a book about the march of folly in human affairs from the Trojan to the Vietnamese war.
(14) Doctors have been reported as possible “Islamic radicalisers”, as have teachers drawn into the row over the Trojan Horse scandal in Birmingham, while the charity commission is scrutinising aid convoys to Syria.
(15) The latter is an intriguing vision , a trojan horse of massive deregulation of some of everything – a clown balloon horse, with rainbow polka dots and a jackass smile.
(16) A "Trojan horse" is needed to evade immune surveillance.
(17) Several studies suggest a "Trojan horse" role for HIV-infected macrophages in dissemination of infectious particles.
(18) "BBC Radio should not be the Trojan horse to deliver all your wider household obligations.
(19) The Trojans went from winning 10 games in 2011 to seven in 2012, and Barkley fell from a first-round pick into one who still hasn't been taken at the end of the third.
(20) What has happened to the Trojan treasure since the occupation of Berlin is a question still unanswered.