ANCIENTS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

People who lived in times long past (especially during the historical period before the fall of the Roman Empire in western Europe)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("ancients" is a kind of...):

people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)

Domain region:

Roman Empire (an empire established by Augustus in 27 BC and divided in AD 395 into the Western Roman Empire and the eastern or Byzantine Empire; at its peak lands in Europe and Africa and Asia were ruled by ancient Rome)

Domain usage:

plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)

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