Word "ANCIENT" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
a very old person
Synonyms:
antediluvian

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
a person who lived in ancient times

Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire
Examples:
ancient history
ancient civilizations such as those of the Etruscans and Sumerians
ancient Greece

Crossword Clues for ANCIENT

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Nine act in very old role (7)
Nice tan achieved a long time ago (7)
Decrepit worker, say, eats dainty with guts turning
Very old canine extracted, given time (7)
Aged The Sun Two Speed 12 May 2025
Old canine bizarrely beginning to talk The Sun Two Speed 12 May 2025
Very old The Times Concise 09 May 2025
See 6 Across Mirror Quiz 06 May 2025
Very old The Telegraph Quick 05 May 2025
A terribly nice part of the bible - very old
Old officer belonging to times long past (7)
From olden times Commuter 22 Mar 2025
Dating from very long ago Mirror Classic 14 Mar 2025
Very old article about nice source of topic (7)
Act Nine should be rewritten, as out of date (7)
Very very old (7) Puzzler 01 Mar 2025
I can net puzzle - it's old! (7)
Very old, battered tin can pierced by end of knife The Times Quick Cryptic 25 Feb 2025
"A" in golf's R & A (7)
Old dance lit gents at heart (7)
Unusual instance without sun for Greek, perhaps (7)
Very old worker hiding one hundred from Spain (7) The Guardian Quiptic 16 Feb 2025
Aged canine strangely beginning to talk The Sun Two Speed 12 Feb 2025
Prehistoric The Sun Two Speed 12 Feb 2025
Old worker having nice appliance (7)
Old, broken tin-can holding the end of a candle (7)
"____ times were the youth of the world" (Francis Bacon) The Times Specialist Sunday 26 Jan 2025
Old soldier keeps transport company name (7)
Very old Mirror Quick 13 Jan 2025
Old worker has nice arrangement Mirror Cryptic 13 Jan 2025
An item of coinage, about the first antique (7)
A new coin seen here? One held to be very old (7) The Guardian Cryptic 08 Jan 2025
African party that is not emptying early The Telegraph Toughie 25 Dec 2024
The Royal & ___: golf's governing body until 2004 (7)
"The Rime of the - Mariner"
Very old: - relics
Old Shakespearian ensign (7)
Old Shakespearian standard-bearer (7)
Very old Inca net restored
Long ago in the past: it is all - history now
Nine act in an old-fashioned way
No good, when enacting reform, to be superannuated (7)
Old political party that is not without a centre (7) The Guardian Cryptic 14 Sep 2024
Of the far past Mirror Classic 14 Sep 2024
Old political party that is not without a centre (7) The Guardian Cryptic 13 Sep 2024
1983 novel by Norman Mailer (7)
& 14D 1983 novel by Norman Mailer (7,8) Mirror Quiz 02 Sep 2024
Party I start to enter is very old (7)
Old worker has nice order Mirror Cryptic 14 Aug 2024
Very old Mirror Quick 14 Aug 2024
Old, and then some Commuter 13 Aug 2024
From the distant past (7) The Guardian Quick 23 Jul 2024
Very old worker, terribly nice at heart (7)
Of a time long past (7)
Very old ensign (7)
Old, broken tin-can found round the back of the garage (7)
I can remove twisted net revealing antique (7)
I can organise hospital department that's very old (7) Puzzler Cryptic 02 Jul 2024
Very old canine tooth's first to disintegrate (7) The Guardian Cryptic 01 Jul 2024
Dating from long ago (7)
"Seven ___ Wonders," bestselling novel by Australian author Matthew Reilly
Nice tan developed when old (7)
Can I cast net over very old objects? (7)
"An American coin," I interjected, "and old" (7)
Old net I can repair
Age-old The Sun Mini 18 May 2024
Very old: in - times
Nice tan? Nonsense! It's so old! (7)
Very old; of long ago (7)
Of the far past Mirror Classic 11 Mar 2024
Thousands of years old (7)
Prehistoric The Sun Two Speed 27 Feb 2024
Old canine trained, beginning to talk? The Sun Two Speed 27 Feb 2024
Old salt miner near it can change drastically (7,7)
And 14 Down Old salt miner near it can change drastically (7,7)
Very old article on yours truly looking into church books (7)
____ history
Older than old Commuter 17 Feb 2024
Very old worker consumed nice crackers (7)
Literary (7)
The 'A' in golf's governing body, the Royal and ___ (7)
Can tie up new characters from long ago (7)
Very old tin with cane, thrashed (7)
"Seven ___ Wonders," bestselling novel by Australian author Matthew Reilly
Far in the past Universal 26 Jan 2024
Aged canine excitedly tense
Can't get in at the end formed a long time ago (7)
Of the far past Mirror Classic 29 Nov 2023
'-- Evenings', 1983 novel by Norman Mailer (7)
Old canine trained - beginning to talk? (7)
Very old canine suffering with temperature The Times Quick Cryptic 06 Nov 2023
Really old Premier Sunday 05 Nov 2023
Very old The Guardian Quick 14 Oct 2023
"The Rime of the ___ Mariner," old poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Archaic The Telegraph Quick 17 Aug 2023
Very old The Telegraph Quick 17 Jul 2023
Beyond old Wall Street Journal 23 May 2023
Very old Newsday 17 Apr 2023
Primeval New York Times 01 Feb 2023
Like Samuel Taylor Coleridge's mariner? The Guardian Quick 28 Oct 2022
Very old eat in canteen, just outside, strangely The Times Cryptic 19 Sep 2022
Old canine barking threateningly at first The Times Cryptic 13 Sep 2022
Prehistoric Scots concerned with rounding cape and island The Times Cryptic 09 Sep 2022
Long gone New York Times 11 Jun 2022
Mega-old USA Today 19 May 2022
Old The Telegraph Quick 23 Apr 2022
Really old worker outside transport company mid-morning Irish Times Crosaire 05 Mar 2022
Prehistoric Newsday 20 Feb 2022
As old as The Hills in 20 down similarly Irish Times Crosaire 15 Jan 2022
Old article has point about space in it
As old as the hills The Guardian Quick 21 Dec 2021
Very old The Telegraph Quick 24 Nov 2021
Very old The Times Concise 12 Oct 2021
As old as The Hills starting for all sides today Irish Times Crosaire 04 Sep 2021
Old-fashioned inheritance excluded heir
Old canine out beginning to tire The Sun Two Speed 13 Jun 2021
Old canine weirdly beginning to talk The Sun Two Speed 03 Jun 2021
Prehistoric The Sun Two Speed 03 Jun 2021
Very old key in crushed tin can The Sun Two Speed 02 Apr 2021
Like the Zhou dynasty USA Today 14 Feb 2021
Very old The Telegraph Quick 01 Feb 2021
Very old article by Conservative that is not without heart The Telegraph Cryptic 12 Jan 2021
Old canine barking given time The Sun Two Speed 09 Dec 2020
Old canine groomed on time The Sun Two Speed 12 Nov 2020
Ensign concerned with touring island group
Old canine barking and beginning to talk The Sun Two Speed 24 Oct 2020
Everyone knows this old course
Aged canine strangely beginning to talk The Sun Two Speed 11 Jun 2020
Very old The Sun Two Speed 11 Jun 2020
Very old The Times Concise 14 Apr 2020
Prehistoric The Telegraph Quick 07 Mar 2020
Prehistoric canine possibly beginning to talk The Sun Two Speed 31 Jan 2020
Like the Parthenon Wall Street Journal 28 Dec 2019
Old canine barking on time The Sun Two Speed 05 Oct 2019
Old canine bizarrely beginning to talk
Old standard-bearer like Iago
Old-fashioned Newsday 19 Jul 2019
Archaic The Sun Two Speed 21 Jun 2019
Old article about one part of hospital The Telegraph Cryptic 11 Jun 2019
Old canine barking on time The Telegraph Cryptic 11 Apr 2019
Like many empires The Washington Post Sunday 24 Mar 2019
Regularly taking out nanny? Crikey, not very old!
Age-old Thomas Joseph 31 Dec 2018
Old fellow sporting nice tan
Very old soldier owns new company in Paris
Auctioneer's first new customer ignoring large antique
Hoary worker hugging citizen that's lost a lot of heart The Telegraph Cryptic 07 Sep 2018
Prehistoric Newsday 31 Aug 2018
. Old heir gets inheritance
Old The Telegraph Quick 12 Aug 2018
Old worker's kind of nice 
Old soldier consumes nice bubbly The Telegraph Toughie 01 Aug 2018
Elder sometimes seen in front of monument
Not up-to-date concerning incorporating European region
Old canine strangely beginning to talk The Sun Two Speed 18 Apr 2018
Old emmet's nice mess absorbed
Very old article close to his heart in the capital Irish Times Crosaire 05 Aug 2017
__ history LA Times Daily 08 Jun 2017
__ history The Washington Post 08 Jun 2017
Really old The Washington Post 15 May 2017
Really old LA Times Daily 15 May 2017
An American coin I collected, very old The Telegraph Cryptic 08 Apr 2017
As old as the hills USA Today 04 Apr 2017
Perhaps soldier adopts terribly nice veteran The Telegraph Cryptic 21 Feb 2017
__ history
Really old
Old article about independent hospital department The Telegraph Cryptic 27 Oct 2016
Last piece of pineapple in crushed tin can is well out-of-date
Like the Aramaic language New York Times 29 Sep 2016
Like the Sphinx Eugene Sheffer 29 Aug 2016
Old worker circling new French company
Like Coleridge's mariner USA Today 21 Jul 2016
Old — about, about 101
Like the Mesopotamian people New York Times 21 Feb 2016
Greek, Roman or Hebrew flag
Old man developing nice tan The Telegraph Cryptic 12 Jan 2016
Like Coleridge's mariner
Like the Aramaic language
Nice changes in a religious tome dating from long ago The Telegraph Cryptic 23 Sep 2015
Very, very old LA Times Daily 21 Sep 2015
Antediluvian Newsday 24 Jul 2015
Antique, old The Telegraph Quick 18 May 2015
Aged The Telegraph Quick 04 May 2015
Old Incan ruins buried last of treasure over time
Like the Dead Sea Scrolls New York Times 10 Mar 2015
Damaged container with missing gold is antique
Old rotten tin can contains cigarette end
Like the Dead Sea Scrolls
Antediluvian
Very, very old
Article on foreign currency includes one that's out of date
A new customer left out from the ark
Very old worker drinks nice rum
Very old, worked with son for instance
Old Shakespearean standard-bearer
Antiquated
Very old
Old and new Conservative regularly likes wearing fake tan
With 42-Across, subject of the poem that contains the line 17-/65-Across
Like fifteen-year-old computers
Like Phoenicia
Prehistoric
From way back
Very old tin can last to be kicked around
Like the Parthenon
Age-old
Like the Parthenon
With 21 Down, old salt
Like dinosaurs
Person of olden times
"The Rime of the ___ Mariner"
Prehistoric
Socrates or Pythagoras, e.g.
Long-ago
Long-ago
Old as the hills
Old as the hills
Venerable one
Venerable one
Like Stonehenge
Prehistoric
Very old
With 31-Across, literary character "whose beard with age is hoar"
From long, long ago
Really old
Very old
With 37-Across, prehistoric orange liqueur?
Very old
Antique
Of interest to archaeologists
As old as the hills
Age-old
Elder
Elder
Like the Sphinx
Like Coleridge's mariner
Venerable
Prehistoric
A new coin eclipsing one from long ago
Like Roman ruins
Like Coleridge's mariner
Antiquated
Like S.T.C.'s Mariner
Antediluvian
Like Coleridge's mariner
Time-honored
Very old
Long gone
Like Tyre or Nineveh
Hoary
Like the mariner
"___ of days."
Time-honored, as Chinese lore.
Word for the pyramids.
Of times long past.
The A in A. O. H.
Of an older world.
Old as the hills.
Hoary.
What Iago was to Othello.
Old.
"___ of Days."
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