History vs Ancient - What's the difference?
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The aggregate of past events.
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A record or narrative description of past events.
A list of past and continuing medical conditions of an individual or family.
A record of previous user events, especially of visited web pages in a browser.
(informal) Something that no longer exists or is no longer relevant.
Shared experience or interaction.
(obsolete) To narrate or record.
Having lasted from a remote period; having been of long duration; of great age; very old.
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, chapter=Foreword Existent or occurring in time long past, usually in remote ages; belonging to or associated with antiquity; old, as opposed to modern.
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, title= (label) Relating to antiquity as a primarily European historical period; the time before the Middle Ages.
(obsolete) Experienced; versed.
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(obsolete) Former; sometime.
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A person who is very old.
A person who lived in ancient times.
(heraldry, archaic) A flag, banner, standard or ensign.
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(UK, legal) One of the senior members of the Inns of Court or of Chancery.
(obsolete) A senior; an elder; a predecessor.
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In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between history and ancient
is that history is (obsolete) to narrate or record while ancient is (obsolete) a senior; an elder; a predecessor.As nouns the difference between history and ancient
is that history is the aggregate of past events while ancient is a person who is very old.As a verb history
is (obsolete) to narrate or record.As an adjective ancient is
having lasted from a remote period; having been of long duration; of great age; very old.history
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Alternative forms
* historie (obsolete) * hystory (nonstandard) * hystorie (obsolete)Noun
(wikipedia history) (wikiversity history lecture)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London.}}
Race Finished, passage=Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?}}
Lessons of past cast shadows over Syria, passage=History and experience act as a filter that can distort as much as elucidate. It is largely forgotten now, overlooked in the one-line description of Tony Blair and George W Bush as the men who lied about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, but there was a wider context to their conviction.}}
- There is too much history between them for them to split up now.
- He has had a lot of history with the police.
Synonyms
* (aggregate of past events) background, past * (record or narrative description of past events) account, chronicle, story, tale * medical history * logDerived terms
* alternate history * antihistory * antihistoricist, antihistoricism * art history * call history * case history * credit history * family history * herstory * historian * historic * historical * historically * historiography * history repeats itself * life history * local history * medical history * microhistory * natural history * oral history * postal history * prehistory * prehistorian * prehistoric * prosecution history * pseudohistoryVerb
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ancient
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(wikipedia ancient)Alternative forms
* anchient, antient, aunchient, auncient, auntient, awncient, awntient (obsolete)Adjective
(en-adj)citation, passage=‘I understand that the district was considered a sort of sanctuary,’ the Chief was saying. ‘An Alsatia like the ancient one behind the Strand, or the Saffron Hill before the First World War. […]’}}
citation, passage=Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.}}
Geothermal Energy, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.}}
- Though [he] was the youngest brother, yet he was the most ancient in the business of the realm.
- They mourned their ancient leader lost.
Antonyms
* modernDerived terms
* Ancient Egypt * Ancient Greece * ancient lights * Ancient Macedonian * ancient pyramid * Ancient Rome * ancientryNoun
(en noun)- I got all things ready as he had directed, and waited the next morning with the boat washed clean, her ancient and pendants out, and everything to accommodate his guests..
- Junius and Andronicus were his ancients .