ancient
/ˈeɪnʃ(ə)nt/
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ancient
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an - cient -> ancient
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(adj) ရှေးဟောင်း။ ရှေးရှေးက။ ရှေးသရောအခါက။ ရှေးပဝေဏီက။ ရှေးပဝေသဏီ က။ ဘိုးတော်ဘုရားလက်ထက်က။
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၁။ ရှေးဟောင်း။ ရှေးရှေးက။ ancient civilizations ❍ an ancient monument ❍ (joc ) The incident happened before I was married and that's all ancient history now.
၂။ (often joc ) ရှေးသရောအခါက။ ရှေးပဝေဏီက။ ရှေးပဝေသဏီ က။ ဘိုးတော်ဘုရားလက်ထက်က။ my ancient green coat ❍ I feel pretty ancient when I see how the younger generation behaves. ❍ an ancient woodland.
❏ the ancients n [pl] ရှေးပဝေဏီကလူမျိုးများ။ (အထူးသဖြင့် အီဂျစ်၊ ဂရိနှင့်ရောမလူမျိုးတို့ကို ဆိုလိုသည်။ )
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very old, antique, early, earliest, olden, prehistoric, primeval, primordial, antediluvian, age-old, aged, ageless, antiquated, archaic, autochthon, back number, been around, bygone, creaky, doyen, doyenne, elder, elderly, elderly person, few miles on, first-born, firstborn, fossil, golden ager, golden-ager, hoary, home towner, indigene, lot of mileage, moth-eaten, native, obsolete, old, old fogey, old folk, old goat, old-fashioned, older, oldie, oldster, out-of-date, outdated, outmoded, primal, relic, remote, retired person, rusty, senior, superannuated, timeworn, venerable, worse for wear
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