Translations for „ancients“ in the English » Russian Dictionary

I . ancient [ˈeɪnʃənt] ADJ

1. ancient (old):

ancient

дре́вний

ancient

ста́рый

since ancient times

с дре́вних времён

2. ancient HISTORY:

ancient

анти́чный

3. ancient inf (very old):

ancient

стари́нный

Phrases:

to be ancient history iron

быть давно́ забы́той исто́рией

II . ancient [ˈeɪnʃənt] N

1. ancient (people):

the ancients

дре́вние наро́ды

2. ancient iron (old man):

ancient

ста́рец m

Usage examples with ancients

the ancients

дре́вние наро́ды

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

Flowers like the iris, chrysanthemum, lily and delphinium (blue), were certainly known to the ancients but do not feature much in garden scenes.

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The dimensions of the system were standardised and measured by the ancients, conforming to a progression of numbers that harmonized distance and time.

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It is universally known the ancients employed slingers in all their engagements.

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But more delicate species that need ancients woodland or open glades, like wood sorrel, meadow clary and lady's slipper orchid, are struggling.

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It seems clear that six of these are reclining as the ancients reclined at their meals.

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The ancients developed an enduring metaphor for a polity's evolution: they drew an analogy between an individual human's life cycle, and developments undergone by a body politic.

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The tradition of the ancients vividly affected our own early dramatists.

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He describes the group as hedonists who met to celebrate woman in wine, and added ideas from the ancients just to make the experience more decadent.

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To use the moderns as the standard for the ancients is to misrepresent the ancients.

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He devours knowledge and the wisdom of the ancients with the voracity of the autodidact he is: the son of poor farmers.

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