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say it: AYN-chuhnts
ancients is a noun meaning "people who lived in times long past (especially during the historical period before the fall of the Roman Empire in western Europe)". It carries one recorded sense.
people who lived in times long past (especially during the historical period before the fall of the Roman Empire in western Europe)
plural · Roman Empire
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for ancients come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.