| literary |
| 1. adj. Relating to literature. | |
| literary fame | |
| a literary history | |
| literary conversation | |
| 2. adj. Relating to writers, or the profession of literature. | |
| a literary man | |
| 3. adj. Knowledgeable of literature or writing. | |
| 4. adj. Appropriate to literature rather than everyday writing. | |
| 5. adj. Bookish. | |
| centuries |
| 1. n. plural of century | |
| century |
| 1. n. A period of 100 consecutive years; often specifically a numbered period with conventional start and end dates, e.g., the twentieth century, which stretches from (strictly) 1901 through 2000, or (infor | |
| 2. n. A unit in ancient Roman army, originally of 100 army soldiers as part of a cohort, later of more varied sizes (but typically containing 60 to 70 or 80) soldiers or other men (guards, police, firemen) | |
| 3. n. A political division of ancient Rome, meeting in the Centuriate Assembly. | |
| 4. n. A hundred things of the same kind; a hundred. | |
| 5. n. (cricket) A hundred runs scored either by a single player in one innings, or by two players in a partnership. | |
| 6. n. (sports) A race a hundred units (as meters, kilometres, miles) in length. | |
| 7. n. (US, informal) A banknote in the denomination of one hundred dollars. | |
| old |
| 1. adj. Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time. | |
| an old abandoned building; an old friend | |
| 2. adj. Of a living being, having lived for most of the expected years. | |
| a wrinkled old man | |
| 3. adj. Of a perishable item, having existed for most, or more than its shelf life. | |
| an old loaf of bread | |
| 4. adj. Of an item that has been used and so is not new (unused). | |
| I find that an old toothbrush is good to clean the keyboard with. | |
| 5. adj. Having existed or lived for the specified time. | |
| How old are they? She’s five years old and he's seven. We also have a young teen and a two-year-old child. | |
| My great-grandfather lived to be a hundred and one years old. | |
| 6. adj. Of an earlier time.: | |
| 7. adj. Former, previous. | |
| My new car is not as good as my old one. a school reunion for Old Etonians | |
| 8. adj. That is no longer in existence. | |
| The footpath follows the route of an old railway line. | |
| 9. adj. Obsolete; out-of-date. | |
| That is the old way of doing things; now we do it this way. | |
| 10. adj. Familiar. | |
| When he got drunk and quarrelsome they just gave him the old heave-ho. | |
| 11. adj. Tiresome. | |
| Your constant pestering is getting old. | |
| 12. adj. Said of subdued colors, particularly reds, pinks and oranges, as if they had faded over time. | |
| 13. adj. A grammatical intensifier, often used in describing something positive. (Mostly in idioms like good old, big old and little old, any old and some old.) | |
| We're having a good old time. My next car will be a big old SUV. My wife makes the best little old apple pie in Texas. | |
| 14. adj. (obsolete) Excessive, abundant. | |
| 15. n. (with "the") People who are old; old beings; the older generation, taken as a group. | |
| A civilised society should always look after the old in the community. | |
| ancient |
| 1. adj. Having lasted from a remote period; having been of long duration; of great age, very old. | |
| an ancient city an ancient forest | |
| 2. adj. Existent or occurring in time long past, usually in remote ages; belonging to or associated with antiquity; old, as opposed to modern. | |
| an ancient author an ancient empire | |
| 3. adj. (history) Relating to antiquity as a primarily European historical period; the time before the Middle Ages. | |
| 4. adj. (obsolete) Experienced; versed. | |
| 5. adj. (obsolete) Former; sometime. | |
| 6. n. A person who is very old. | |
| 7. n. A person who lived in ancient times. | |
| 8. n. (heraldry, archaic) A flag, banner, standard or ensign. | |
| 9. n. (legal) One of the senior members of the Inns of Court or of Chancery. | |
| 10. n. (obsolete) A senior; an elder; a predecessor. | |
| 11. n. (obsolete, rare) ensign or flag | |
| 12. n. (obsolete, rare) the bearer of a flag; ensign | |
