nonancient

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

non- +‎ ancient

Adjective[edit]

nonancient (not comparable)

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