Ancientness: alternatives and connections

A state of reality or real existence as opposed to a possibility or possible existence.

In ancient times.

Antiquity; what is ancient.

Held or being before light; -- a word applied to assemblies of Christians, in ancient times of persecution, held before light in the m…

One devoted to the study of ancient times through their relics, as inscriptions, monuments, remains of ancient habitations, statues, c…

Old; ancient; of genuine antiquity; as, an antique statue. In this sense it usually refers to the flourishing ages of Greece and Rome.

To rise, in a figurative sense; to proceed from an inferior to a superior degree, from mean to noble objects, from particulars to gene…

An engine used in ancient times to beat down the walls of besieged places.

Existence, as opposed to nonexistence; state or sphere of existence.

One who engages in any contest; esp. one who in ancient times contended in single combat in behalf of another's honor or rights; or on…

Pertaining to the Cimmerii, a fabulous people, said to have lived, in very ancient times, in profound and perpetual darkness.

Existence at the same time with another; -- contemporary existence.

One of the stockaded islands in Scotland and Ireland which in ancient times were numerous in the lakes of both countries. They may be…

Old times; former days; antiquity.

One of the products arising from the multiplication of two or more quantities by the same number or quantity. Thus, seven times 2, or…

The state of existing or being; actual possession of being; continuance in being; as, the existence of body and of soul in union; the…

Times or repetitions; -- used with numerals, chiefly in composition, to denote multiplication or increase in a geometrical ratio, the…

(physics) the universal constant in the gas equation: pressure times volume = R times temperature; equal to 8.3143 joules per kelvin p…