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ANCIENT HISTORY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Knowledge of some recent fact or event that has become so commonly known that it has lost its original pertinence
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("ancient history" is a kind of...):
common knowledge (anything generally known to everyone)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A history of the ancient world
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("ancient history" is a kind of...):
account; chronicle; history; story (a record or narrative description of past events)
