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The Clue
Like Tyre or Nineveh (7 letter answer)
The Answer
ANCIENT
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Notes
The answer ANCIENT is rarely seen, appearing only about once every 1100 puzzles.
Related Clues
Antediluvian
Of interest to archaeologists
Long gone
As old as the hills
Time-honored
Like Coleridge's mariner
Like S.T.C.'s Mariner
Person of olden times
Socrates or Pythagoras, e.g.
Definition
ANCIENT as a noun:
1. (ancient, antediluvian) = a very old person
2. a person who lived in ancient times
ANCIENT as an adjective:
1. belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire; "ancient history"; "ancient civilizations such as those of the Etruscans and Sumerians"; "ancient Greece"
2. very old; "an ancient mariner"