Synonyms of the word ancient


ANCIENTANTEDILUVIAN - INDIVIDUAL - MORTAL - OLD - OLDSTER - PAST - PERSON - SOMEBODY - SOMEONE - SOUL

ancient

  • adj. Having lasted from a remote period; having been of long duration; of great age; very old.
  • adj. Existent or occurring in time long past, usually in remote ages; belonging to or associated with antiquity;…
  • adj. (historical) Relating to antiquity as a primarily European historical period; the time before the Middle…
  • adj. (obsolete) Experienced; versed.
  • adj. (obsolete) Former; sometime.
  • n. A person who is very old.
  • n. A person who lived in ancient times.
  • n. (heraldry, archaic) A flag, banner, standard or ensign.
  • n. (Britain, law) One of the senior members of the Inns of Court or of Chancery.
  • n. (obsolete) A senior; an elder; a predecessor.

antediluvian

  • adj. Ancient or antiquated; old; prehistoric.
  • adj. Extremely dated.
  • adj. Pertaining or belonging to the time period prior to a great or destructive flood or deluge.
  • adj. (biblical) Pertaining or belonging to the time prior to Noah's Flood.
  • n. One who lived prior to Noah's Flood.

individual

  • n. A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people.
  • n. (law) A single physical human being as a legal subject, as opposed to a legal person such as a corporation.
  • n. An object, be it a thing or an agent, as contrasted to a class.
  • n. (statistics) An element belonging to a population.
  • adj. Relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one.
  • adj. Intended for a single person as opposed to more than one person.

mortal

  • adj. Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
  • adj. Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).
  • adj. Fatally vulnerable; vital.
  • adj. Of or relating to the time of death.
  • adj. Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly.
  • adj. Human; belonging to man, who is mortal.
  • adj. Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
  • adj. (Britain, slang) Very drunk; wasted; smashed.
  • n. A human; someone susceptible to death.

old

  • adj. Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time.
  • adj. Of an item that has been used and so is not new (unused).
  • adj. Having existed or lived for the specified time.
  • adj. (heading) Of an earlier time.
  • adj. Tiresome.
  • adj. Said of subdued colors, particularly reds, pinks and oranges, as if they had faded over time.
  • adj. A grammatical intensifier, often used in describing something positive. (Mostly in idioms like good old,…
  • adj. (obsolete) Excessive, abundant.
  • n. (with "the") People who are old; old beings; the older generation, taken as a group.

oldster

  • n. Someone who is old.

past

  • n. The period of time that has already happened, in contrast to the present and the future.
  • n. (grammar) The past tense.
  • adj. Having already happened; in the past; finished.
  • adj. (postmodifier) Following expressions of time to indicate how long ago something happened; ago.
  • adj. Of a period of time: having just gone by; previous.
  • adj. (grammar) Of a tense, expressing action that has already happened or a previously-existing state.
  • adv. in a direction that passes.
  • adv. Passing by, especially without stopping or being delayed.
  • prep. beyond in place, quantity or time.

person

  • n. An individual; usually a human being.
  • n. The physical body of a being seen as distinct from the mind, character, etc.
  • n. (law) Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts.
  • n. (law) The human genitalia; specifically, the penis.
  • n. (grammar) A linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and those to whom…
  • n. (biology) A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa, Anthozoa, etc.; also,…
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.
  • v. (transitive, gender-neutral) To man.

somebody

  • pron. Some unspecified person.
  • n. A recognised person, a celebrity.

someone

  • pron. Some person.
  • n. A partially specified but unnamed person.

soul

  • n. (religion, folklore) The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and…
  • n. The spirit or essence of anything.
  • n. Life, energy, vigor.
  • n. (music) Soul music.
  • n. A person, especially as one among many.
  • n. An individual life.
  • n. (mathematics) A kind of submanifold involved in the soul theorem of Riemannian geometry.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To endow with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.
  • v. (obsolete) To afford suitable sustenance.

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