nonancient

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adjective

Not ancient.

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Meanings

adjectivenonancient (not comparable)
  1. not comparableNot ancient.

    And we ride through 1995 Berlin, a city of cranes and construction and nonancient ruins that seems a slightly sad, distant relation of the black-and-white city of this movie’s film within a film.

    2015 September 17, Rachel Saltz, “Review: In ‘A Trick of the Light,’ the German Answer to the Lumière Brothers”, in New York Times

Origin

From non- + ancient.

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APA

nonancient. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonancient

MLA

“nonancient.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonancient. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “nonancient,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonancient.

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