ancients
- noun
- /ˈeɪnʃənts/
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antiguos
- The ancients, ancient Greeks, had no soap.
Well, that's the great secret that was left to us by the ancients and those of our past.
- Well, that's the great secret that was left to us by the ancients and those of our past.
- So there was a reason for doing all that, and people realized the ancients knew this kind of thing.
- It's the same sense that the ancients would call felt existed in the pineal gland.
Examples
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Archaeologists study the ruins left by the ancients to learn about their cultures.
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We've lost much of what the ancients actually had to bequeath us.
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This is a bundle issue the ancients are explicitly aware of.
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In the academic world was between what groups were called ancients versus moderns.
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Newton's ashes are in that urn, and the ancients gorp at his triumph.
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The writings of the ancients reveal their thoughts on philosophy and science.
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Many of the ancients believed in multiple gods and goddesses.
How Ancient
Surface Forms
Morphology
ancients = ancient (transparent) = ancient + s
A regular plural formation from the noun 'ancient'; the meaning is directly predictable from the base.
Etymology
Ancients comes from an old Latin root ante that means 'before', and you can see the same idea in the word antique. So ancients are the people who lived 'long ago' or before our time.