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nonancient

nonancient adjective: not ancient.

Adjective

nonancient (not comparable)

  1. Not ancient.
    • 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.2015 September 17, Rachel Saltz, “Review: In ‘A Trick of the Light,’ the German Answer to the Lumière Brothers”, in New York Times

Origin of nonancient

From non- + ancient.

Questions about nonancient

What does nonancient mean?
Nonancient means not ancient.
What part of speech is nonancient?
Nonancient is an adjective.

Words near nonancient in the dictionary

  1. nonanastomotic
  2. nonanatomic
  3. nonanatomical
  4. nonanatomically
  5. nonancestral
  6. nonancient
  7. nonancillary
  8. nonandic
  9. nonandrogenic
  10. nonandrogynous
  11. nonandrophilic

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