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{
"term": "ancient",
"partOfSpeech": "adjectivenoun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "belonging to a period of history that is thousands of years in the past",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "Archaeologists are excavating the ruined temples of this **ancient civilization**."
},
{
"text": "**ancient Greece/Egypt/Rome**"
},
{
"text": "the ancient city of Petra"
}
],
"topics": ["History"]
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "very old; having existed for a very long time",
"labels": "(humorous)",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "an ancient oak tree"
},
{
"text": "ancient traditions/culture"
},
{
"text": "the ancient Japanese art of origami"
},
{
"text": "He's ancient—he must be at least fifty!"
},
{
"text": "The man looked positively ancient."
},
{
"text": "The area is still covered by huge ancient forests."
}
],
"topics": ["Buildings"],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "look"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "the people who lived in ancient times, especially the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans",
"examples": []
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈeɪnʃənt/",
"audio": "an/ancient/ancient__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈeɪnʃənt/",
"audio": "an/ancient/ancient__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French ancien, based on Latin ante ‘before’."
}