Usually means: Belonging to the very distant past.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word ancient:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. ancient: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. ancient, ancient: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ancient, ancient: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ancient: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ancient: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ancient, ancient: Wordnik
  7. ancient: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ancient: Wiktionary
  9. ancient: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ancient: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ancient: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. ancient, the ancient: Dictionary.com
  13. ancient: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. ancient: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Ancient (Stargate), Ancient (band), Ancient (company), Ancient (disambiguation), Ancient, The Ancient: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Ancient: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. ancient: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. ancient: Rhymezone
  19. ancient: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. ancient: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Ancient: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. ancient: Free Dictionary
  23. ancient: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. ancient: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. ancient: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. ancient: Merriam-Webster.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. ancient: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry (No longer online)
  3. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Ancient (disambiguation): Legal dictionary
  4. ancient: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ancient: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. ANCIENT: Masonic Dictionary
  3. ancient: Idioms
  4. ancient: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ancient: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See ancientness as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Having lasted from a remote period; having been of long duration; of great age, very old.
adjective:  Existent or occurring in time long past, usually in remote ages; belonging to or associated with antiquity; old, as opposed to modern.
adjective:  (history) Relating to antiquity as a primarily European historical period; the time before the Middle Ages.
adjective:  (obsolete) Experienced; versed.
adjective:  (obsolete) Former; sometime.
noun:  A person who is very old.
noun:  A person who lived in ancient times.
noun:  (UK, law) One of the senior members of the Inns of Court or of Chancery.
noun:  (obsolete) A senior; an elder; a predecessor.
noun:  (heraldry, archaic) A flag, banner, standard or ensign.
noun:  (obsolete, rare) The bearer of a flag; ensign.

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