Definition of: bancientb

(ān′shənt) adjective
1. Existing or occurring in times long gone by, especially before the fall of the Roman Empire of the West, in 476: opposed to modern: ancient history, ancient authors.
2. Belonging to or having existed from a remote antiquity; of great age: ancient relics.
3. Archaic.Venerable; sage.
—noun
1. One who lived in ancient times.
2. An ancient or venerable person.
—the ancients
1. The ancient Greeks, Romans, Hebrews, or other civilized nations of antiquity.
2. The ancient authors of Greece and Rome. [<OF ancien, ult. <L ante before]
—an′cient·ness noun Synonyms (adj.): aged, antiquated, antique, gray, hoary, immemorial, old, olden, time-honored, time-worn, venerable. Ancient, from the French, is the more stately; old, from the Anglo-Saxon, the more familiar word. Venerable expresses the involuntary reverence that we yield to the majestic and the long-enduring. See ANTIQUE, OLD. Antonyms: fresh, modern, new, novel, recent.