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[ adjective ] belonging to or lasting from times long ago

Synonyms

ancient antique

Examples

"age-old customs" "the antique fear that days would dwindle away to complete darkness"

Used in print

(Musical America, LXXXI:5...)

After this holocaust , a changing world occupied the minds of men ; a world beset with new boundaries , new treaties and governments , new goals and methods , and the age-old fears of aggression and subjugation - hunger and exposure .

Related terms

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