ANCIENT

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Traducere în limba română

ancient¹ I. adjectiv

1. vechi, străvechi, bătrânesc, de demult.

2. antic, clasic.

ancient¹ II. substantiv

1. bătrân, moş, moşneag, unchiaş; bătrână, babă.

2. autor clasic.

3. the ancients plural anticii, cei din vechime, cel vechi (mai ales grecii şi romanii).

ancient² substantiv (înv.)

1. steag, drapel, stindard, flamură.

2. stegar, port-drapel.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

I made all the sail I could, and in half an hour she spied me, then hung out her ancient, and discharged a gun.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

Yes, my lord, for the town being very ancient and the walls as old as the town, it follows that they are very ancient too.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Once, they came upon a path blazed through the forest, an ancient path, and the Lost Cabin seemed very near.

(The Call of the Wild, de Jack London)

This apartment, to which she had given a date so ancient, a position so awful, proved to be one end of what the general's father had built.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

An ancient family to be so driven away!

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

Old Mr. Rivers, she said, was a plain man enough, but a gentleman, and of as ancient a family as could be found.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Ancient astrologers wrote that many of the people you meet in the year Jupiter visits your sign will become the ones who will prove important to you and help you advance many personal and professional goals.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

From a rise of the road on the shoulder of Crooksbury Hill, we could see the grim Hall bristling out from amidst the ancient oaks, which, old as they were, were still younger than the building which they surrounded.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Possibly you have seen pictures and read descriptions of the famous old building, so I will confine my account of it to saying that it is built in the shape of an L, the long arm being the more modern portion, and the shorter the ancient nucleus, from which the other had developed.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Past or ancient climates.

(Paleoclimate, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

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