ancients

1. 1.

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

   Broaderpeople

   plural · Roman Empire

Other forms of ancients

plural

ancientses·

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.

Questions about ancients

What does ancients mean?

ancients means "people who lived in times long past (especially during the historical period before the fall of the Roman Empire in western Europe)".

How many syllables are in ancients?

ancients has 2 syllables: an-cients. The stress falls on "an". In IPA it is /ˈeɪntʃənts/.

Is ancients a common word?

ancients is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.