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ancient history

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: ancient history

1
n
a history of the ancient world
2
n
knowledge of some recent fact or event that has become so commonly known that it has lost its original pertinence
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: ancient history
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n a history of the ancient world

Type of:
account, chronicle, history, story
a record or narrative description of past events
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n knowledge of some recent fact or event that has become so commonly known that it has lost its original pertinence

Type of:
common knowledge
anything generally known to everyone
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