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"ancient" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often primordial (10 letters).
Definitions
Very old or from the distant past.
Word origin
From Middle English auncyen, from Old French ancien, from Vulgar Latin *anteānus, composed of Latin ante (“before”) + -ānus (adjective-forming suffix). The non-etymological excrescent /t/ is by analogy with the common ending -ent.
Used in a sentence
“an ancient city”
“an ancient forest”
“an ancient author”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Very old”7 letters
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