Vocabulary
Ancient
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
belonging to the very distant past and no longer in existence.
Urdu meaning
قدیم،بہت پرانا،
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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Other South Asian countries that have successfully utilised their ancient assets to bolster tolerance and the travel economy should serve as templates in reviving Pakistan`s economy.
Dawn Editorials —
Ritual economy
— 2026-04-21
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THE unearthing of 18 ancient glass beads at Taxila`s Bhir Mound is no small archaeological find.
Dawn Editorials —
Beads of history
— 2026-04-13
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Meaning emerges not from isolated lines but from relationships across passages.Modern literary scholarship describes a similar phenomenon as `ring composition` a concentric structure common in ancient Semitic texts.
Dawn Editorials —
A divine design
— 2026-04-10
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Reports say that some gallery panels in its ancient Levant and Egypt sections were revised, with `Palestinian descent` replaced by `Canaanite descent` and parts of the eastern Mediterranean no longer labelled `Palestine`.
Dawn Editorials —
Curating controversy
— 2026-02-18
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Scholars defended the phrase `ancient Palestine` as a valid academic term.
Dawn Editorials —
Curating controversy
— 2026-02-18
Synonyms
of long ago, earliest, first, early, past, former, bygone; prehistoric, primeval
Antonyms
recent, contemporary
Curator example
“the ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean”
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