ancient history

1. 1.

   a history of the ancient world

   Broaderhistory
2. 2.

   knowledge of some recent fact or event that has become so commonly known that it has lost its original pertinence

   Broadercommon knowledge

Questions about ancient history

What does ancient history mean?

ancient history means "a history of the ancient world". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is ancient history a common word?

ancient history is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.