Ancient

Definition

ancient /'eÇnʃǝnt/ adj ၁။ ေရွးေဟာင္း။ ေရွးေရွးက။ ancient civilizations ❍ an ancient monument ❍ ( joc ) The incident happened before I was married and that's all ancient history now. ၂။ ( often joc ) ေရွးသေရာအခါက။ ေရွးပေဝဏီက။ ေရွးပေဝသဏီ က။ ဘိုးေတာ္ဘုရားလက္ထက္က။ my ancient green coat ❍ I feel pretty ancient when I see how the younger generation behaves. ❍ an ancient woodland. ❏ the ancients n [pl] ေရွးပေဝဏီကလူမ်ဳိးမ်ား။ (အထူးသျဖင့္ အီဂ်စ္၊ ဂရိႏွင့္ေရာမလူမ်ဳိးတို႔ကို ဆိုလိုသည္။ )

Examples

1. An ancient city/book/tradition
2. The ancient Greeks/Britons/Egyptians
3. Recently discovered remains of an ancient civilization