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| Domain | Definition |
Public Administration | Part of the town enclosed by the line of the former oldest walls. (PH/NS AP). Source: European Union. (references) |
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Crosswords: ANCIENT CITY |
| English words defined with "ANCIENT CITY": Argos, Assouan, Assuan, Aswan ♦ Braga, Byzantium ♦ Cannae, capital of Syria, Carthage, Corinth ♦ Damascus ♦ Ephesian ♦ Gomorrah, Gomorrha ♦ Herculaneum ♦ Ilion, Ilium ♦ Korinthos ♦ Memphian, Memphis, Mycenae ♦ Paphian, Pelusiac, Persepolis, Philippopolis, Plovdiv, Pompeii ♦ Saragossa, sodom ♦ Tabriz, Trojan, troy ♦ Ur, Utica ♦ Zaragoza. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "ANCIENT CITY": Parchment. (references) |
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Screenplays | Oh, Mycenae was an ancient city in the Southern Pelopponesian region. (Stargate SG-1; writing credit: Robert C. Cooper; Brad Wright) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Jungle growth attempting to reclaim the ancient city of Nan Madol. Credit: Small World. |
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Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Deliver me from a city built on the site of a more ancient city, whose materials are ruins, whose gardens cemeteries. |
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Economic History | Syria | Archaeologists have discovered extensive writings and evidence of a brilliant culture rivaling those of Mesopotamia and Egypt in and around the ancient city of Ebla. (references) |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "ANCIENT CITY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 郢 (name of an ancient city), 郯 (name of an ancient city), 郗 (name of an ancient city), 酆 (name of an ancient city), 豳 (name of an ancient city), 邴 (ancient city name, happy), (name of an ancient city). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | oude stad (old town). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | ville ancienne. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Altstadt (old town). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 古都 (former capital). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | "と (business, circumstances, covering up, experience, fact, former capital, glossing over, Koto, matter, reason, thing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ancientay itycay cidade antiga. (various references) ciudad antigua. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-i-i-n-n-t-t-y" | |
-3 letters: anticity, caninity, cyanitic, incitant, tenacity. | |
-4 letters: actinic, ancient, cyanine, cyanite, ectatic, inanity, nictate, tenancy, tetanic, titanic. | |
-5 letters: accent, acetic, acetin, acinic, canine, cannie, cantic, cattie, centai, cyanic, cyanin, enatic, encina, entity, incant, incite, innate, intact, intent, intine, niacin, nicety, ninety, tactic, tannic, tenant, tetany, tictac, titian. | |
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