ancients
AYN-shuhnts/ˈeɪn.ʃənts/
- 1People who lived long ago in places like ancient Greece and Rome, especially their writers and thinkers.
Like the long-ago grandparents of today's world, whose ideas we still use thousands of years later.
The ancients built huge stone temples that still stand today.
Many of our ideas about voting and government came from the ancients.
Oppositemoderns
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- 2Plural of ancient. Use this when you mean more than one ancient person or being.
The old paintings showed wise ancients with long white beards.
Stories about the ancients were passed down for many years.
Note
ancients is a form of ancient
ancient, noun: Someone who lived a very long time ago, in the early periods of history. Full entry
- Forms
- ancientancients plural
- Spelling
- ancient → ancients: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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