Definition of ancient

"ancient" in the noun sense

1. ancient, antediluvian

a very old person

2. ancient

a person who lived in ancient times

"ancient" in the adjective sense

1. ancient

belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire

"ancient history"

"ancient civilizations such as those of the Etruscans and Sumerians"

"ancient Greece"

2. ancient

very old

"an ancient mariner"

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Quotations for ancient

All blood is alike ancient. [ Proverb ]

Society is as ancient as the world. [ Voltaire ]

Ancient custom is always held as law. [ Law ]

A little garden square and walled;
And in it throve an ancient evergreen,
A yew-tree, and all round it ran a walk
Of shingle, and a walk divided it. [ Tennyson ]

Gentility is nothing but ancient riches. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Alas! for piety! Alas! for ancient faith! [ Virgil ]

It is lost at dice, what ancient honor won. [ William Shakespeare ]

Custom without reason is but an ancient error. [ Proverb ]

He that to ancient wreaths can bring no more
From his own worth, dies bankrupt on the score. [ Cleveland ]

The hills, rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun. [ Bryant ]

I like that ancient Saxon phrase which calls
The burial ground, God's Acre! It is just;
It consecrates each grave within its walls.
And breathes a benison over the sleeping dust.
* * * * *
Into its furrows shall we all be cast.
In the sure faith, that we shall rise again
At the great harvest, when the archangel's blast
Shall winnow, like a fan, the chaff and grain. [ Longfellow ]

Ancient custom is always held or regarded as law. [ Law Maxim ]

Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature. [ Voltaire ]

We derive all that is pardonable in us from ancient fountains. [ Dryden ]

Custom, though never so ancient, without truth, is but an old error. [ Cyprian ]

Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals. [ Joubert ]

When a blind man flourishes the ancient, woe be unto those that follow him. [ Proverb ]

Such dupes are men to custom, and so prone
To reverence what is ancient, and can plead
A course of long observance for its use.
That even servitude, the worst of ills,
Because delivered down from sire to son, Is kept and guarded as a sacred thing! [ Cowper ]

For the qualities of sheer wit and humor. Swift had no superior, ancient or modern. [ Leigh Hunt ]

Faith, amid the disorders of a sinful life, is like the lamp burning in an ancient tomb. [ Madame Swetchine ]

Prudence is one of the virtues which were called cardinal by the ancient ethical writers. [ William Fleming ]

Still as the peaceful walks of ancient night; silent as are the lamps that burn on tombs. [ William Shakespeare ]

Declaring the end from the beginning, and from the ancient times the things that are not yet done. [ Bible ]

Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum. [ Madame Swetchine ]

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. [ Hawthorne ]

Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology. [ Hare ]

They that marry ancient people merely in expectation to bury them, hang themselves in hope that one will come and cut the halter. [ Fuller ]

Short, isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient wisdom delighted to convey its precepts for the regulation of human conduct. [ Bishop Warburton ]

They that marry ancient people merely in expectation to bury them, hang themselves in hopes that some one will come and cut the halter. [ Thomas Fuller ]

In ancient Boeotia brides were carried home in vehicles whose wheels were burned at the door, in token that they would never again be needed. [ T. W. Higginson ]

In ancient days the Pythagoreans were used to change names with each other, - fancying that each would share the virtues they admired in the other. [ Thoreau ]

The royal navy of England has ever been its greatest defence and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island. [ Sir Wm. Blackstone ]

We live only on debris; instead of despair, we have indifference; love itself is treated as an ancient illusion. Where has the soul of the world taken refuge? [ Mme. Louise Colet ]

It is a revered thing to see an ancient castle not in decay; how much more to behold an ancient family which have stood against the waves and weathers of time! [ Bacon ]

The exhaustion of taste, genius, and splendor upon its fables and ceremonies, even to our times, constitute the ancient paganism a marvel of all that was attractive and magnificent. [ R. W. Hamilton ]

It is like the Greek fire used in ancient warfare, which burnt unquenched beneath the water; or like the weeds which, when you have extirpated them in one place, are sprouting forth vigorously in another spot, at the distance of many hundred yards; or, to use the metaphor of St. James, it is like the wheel which catches fire as it goes, and burns with fiercer conflagration as its own speed increases. [ F. W. Robertson ]

ancient in Scrabble®

The word ancient is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters ancient:

CATENIN
(86 = 36 + 50)
ANCIENT
(86 = 36 + 50)
CATENIN
(86 = 36 + 50)
ANCIENT
(86 = 36 + 50)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (2 words)

ancient, catenin

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word ancient

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In ancient

CATENIN
(86 = 36 + 50)
ANCIENT
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CATENIN
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ANCIENT
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ANCIENT
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ANCIENT
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CATENIN
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CATENIN
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ancient in Words With Friends™

The word ancient is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters ancient:

ANCIENT
(101 = 66 + 35)
CATENIN
(101 = 66 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (2 words)

ancient, catenin

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word ancient

ANCIENT
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In ancient

ANCIENT
(101 = 66 + 35)
CATENIN
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CATENIN
(95 = 60 + 35)
CATENIN
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Words within the letters of ancient

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Words containing the sequence ancient

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