ancientness / ˈeɪn ʃənt /

古老古代古代性古老性

ancientness2 个定义

adj. 形容词 adjective
  1. of or in time long past, especially before the end of the Western Roman Empire a.d. 476: ancient history.
  2. dating from a remote period; of great age: ancient rocks;ancient trees.
  3. very old; aged: She's fifteen, which is ancient for a dog that size.
n. 名词 noun
  1. a person who lived in ancient times.
  2. one of the classical writers of antiquity.
  3. a very old or aged person, especially if venerable or patriarchal.
  4. ancients, Usually the ancients .the civilized peoples, nations, or cultures of antiquity, as the Greeks, Romans, Hebrews, and Egyptians.the writers, artists, and philosophers of ancient times, especially those of Greece and Rome.

ancientness 近义词

ancientness

等同于 antiquity

更多ancientness例句

  1. Regenerative agriculture dates back at least to biblical times, when the ancients practiced rudimentary crop rotation by letting their fields lie fallow in order to keep the soil rich with nutrients.
  2. George Poinar, an entomologist and paleontologist at Oregon State University in Corvallis who described the ancient cricket, stands by his conclusions.
  3. The evidence of ancient cricket sperm is less clear, he says.
  4. Microraptor, which lived some 120 m­illion years ago alongside ancient birds, is distantly related to Aves.
  5. Those developing embryos were reverting into ants that looked more like their ancient endosymbiont-free ancestors.
  6. But the last national figure to wield ancient personal authority in an explicitly religious way was Robert F. Kennedy.
  7. Historical justifications for most modern celebrations can be found in the ancient world.
  8. Ancient Romans exchanged gifts of figs and honey and would make sure to work part of the day as a good omen for the coming year.
  9. The ancient Egyptian festival of Wepet Renpet (“opening of the year”) was not just a time of rebirth—it was dedicated to drinking.
  10. It can be hard to wrap your head around the problems facing the continent because they might seem ancient to us.
  11. I believe that these are ideal characters constructed from still more ancient legends and traditions.
  12. Elyon is the name of an ancient Phœnician god, slain by his son El, no doubt the “first-born of death” in Job xviii.
  13. Something remote and ancient stirred in her, something that was not of herself To-day, something half primitive, half barbaric.
  14. When Cortez made conquest of Mexico in 1519 smoking seemed to be a common as well as an ancient custom among the natives.
  15. Long before that, however, the sun had come back to gladden the Polar regions, and break up the reign of ancient night.