ancient
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
- arrow points to the broader concept
- dashed outline: no word in this language
- Click any word to expand it.
Senses
Sense 1 noun
a very old person
Types & categories
- oldster hypernym
Related & opposite
- ancient derivation
Sense 2 adjective
belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire
ancient history
Related & opposite
- ancientness derivation
- ancient derivation
- past similar to
Sense 3 noun
a person who lived in ancient times
Types & categories
- person hypernym
Related & opposite
- ancient derivation
Sense 4 adjective
very old
an ancient mariner
Related & opposite
- ancientness derivation
- ancient derivation
- old similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | ancient |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | oldster |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | ancientness |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | ancient |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | past |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | ancient |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | person |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | ancientness |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | ancient |
| 4 | similar to | Related & opposite | old |