Adjective:

தொன்மைான,

ancient தமிழ் அர்த்தத்தின் உதாரணம்:

None

ancient's Usage Examples:

Tacitus says of the ancient Germans reges ex nobilitate, duces ex virtute sumunt; i.

The letters of both classes of languages, which also vary considerably, are all modifications of the ancient Pali, and probably derived from the Dravidians, not from the Aryans.

They explain why Shechem, Bethel and Beersheba were ancient sanctuaries (see further below); why the serpent writhes along the ground (iii.

It perpetuates the tripartite division of the world by the ancient Greeks and survives in the Royal Orb.

"The most important positive evidence on this point indicates that the most ancient Gymnosperms were derived from the Filicales rather than from any other phylum of the Vascular Cryptogams.

The ancient kingship was perhaps kept on or renewed in some of the Siceliot and Italiot towns; but it is more certain that civil dissensions led very early to the rise of tyrants.

The ancient rival of Venice, Genoa, was likewise far gone in decline.

The ancient forests are the only home of Scotland's sole truly native bird, the Scottish crossbill.

This view claims to determine the respective ages and relative chronological position of the various passages in which the Passover is referred to in the Pentateuch, and assumes that each successive stratum represents the practice in ancient Israel at the time of composition, laying great stress upon omissions as implying non-existence.

The harbour, formed by an ancient transverse mole nearly 1200 ft.

The Russians retreat and abandon their ancient capital.

MALINES (Flemish, Mechelen, called in the middle ages by the Latin name Mechlinia, whence the spelling Mechlin), an ancient and important city of Belgium, and the seat since 1559 of the only archbishopric in that country.

In ancient times the upper valleys of Adige and its tributaries were inhabited by Raetian tribes and included in the province of Raetia; and the line of demarcation between that province and Italy was purely arbitrary, as it remains to this day.

Synonyms:

old,

Antonyms:

fat person, young,