ancient history

Definition of Ancient History in English :

1. ancient history

a history of the ancient world

2. ancient history

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Ancient History

noun

1.

the history of the ancient world from the earliest known civilizations to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in 476 ad

2. informal

a recent event or fact sufficiently familiar to have lost its pertinence

1.

history from the earliest recorded events to the end of the Western Roman Empire in a.d. 476

2. Informal

something of the recent past that is well known or no longer important

n.

1. The history of times long past.

2. Informal Common knowledge, especially of a recent event that has lost its original impact or importance.