ancient
英 ['e?n?(?)nt]
美[?e?n??nt]
- adj. 古代的；古老的，過時的；年老的
- n. 古代人；老人
英英釋意
- 1. 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. very old;
- "an ancient mariner"