Arabic anciently supplanted Ancient Egyptian, both languages belonging to the Afro-Asiatic language family.
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Anciently
Synonyms for "anciently" (6 found)
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Closest matches (2)
Strong matches (1)
Adverb(1 words)
Related words (3)
Adverb(2 words)
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Translations
7 translations across 5 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- antigament adv (in the manner of very long ago)
Finnish
1 entries- muinoin adv (in the manner of very long ago)
Italian
1 entries- anticamente adv (in the manner of very long ago)
Portuguese
1 entries- antigamente adv (in the manner of very long ago)
Spanish
3 entries- antaño adv (in the manner of very long ago)
- antiguamente adv (in the manner of very long ago)
- de antaño adv (in the manner of very long ago)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
Although anciently and irregularly built, this market-town is much resorted to by the neighbouring gentry, not less for the beauty of its position, than for the famed salubrity of its air.
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Native Fijians are Melanesians, a kind of Australoid people, but they speak a Malayo-Polynesian language, perhaps adopted anciently from islander neighbours who were not Melanesians. My neighbours, the Wongs, who are multiracial from Fiji, know a bit of Fijian. They like learning English, but I say to them, "Your Fijian is much more beautiful!"
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The anciently written inscriptions in the pyramids can still be read.
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