Nonancient

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Not ancient. not-comparable

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

From non- + ancient.

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