Thesaurus / ancients
FEEDBACKsynonyms for ancients
synonyms for ancients
- elder
- pensioner
- senior citizen
- ancient
- doyen
- doyenne
- grandfather
- grandmother
- head
- matriarch
- oldster
- old-timer
- patriarch
- elderly person
- first-born
- golden-ager
- old folk
- retired person
- ancient
- doyen
- doyenne
- elder
- elderly person
- first-born
- grandfather
- grandmother
- head
- matriarch
- old folk
- oldster
- old-timer
- patriarch
- pensioner
- retired person
- senior citizen
- ancient
- doyen
- doyenne
- elder
- grandfather
- grandmother
- head
- matriarch
- old-timer
- patriarch
- pensioner
- elderly person
- first-born
- golden ager
- old folk
- retired person
- senior citizen
- patriarch
- senior
- senior citizen
- veteran
- ancestor
- ancient
- matriarch
- oldster
- superior
- forebearer
- golden ager
- oldest
- old fogy
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How to use ancients in a sentence
If they are Ancients and dead then let them be buried and left to the archæological excavator.
THE SALVAGING OF CIVILISATIONH. G. (HERBERT GEORGE) WELLSAmong the ancients, the tools which served in the arts were few in number, and these of exceeding simplicity.
OUTLINES OF THE EARTH'S HISTORYNATHANIEL SOUTHGATE SHALEROwing to their strange appearance, comets were to the ancients omens of calamity.
OUTLINES OF THE EARTH'S HISTORYNATHANIEL SOUTHGATE SHALERThis was the opinion of all the ancients; it has been asserted that Helen was seventy when she was carried off by Paris.
A PHILOSOPHICAL DICTIONARY, VOLUME 1 (OF 10)FRANOIS-MARIE AROUET (AKA VOLTAIRE)This island was known in early times to the ancients, and appears to have been used as a summer or sea-bathing resort.
THE TOWNS OF ROMAN BRITAINJAMES OLIVER BEVANAn author of modern times usually proves the ancients inferior to us in two ways: by reason and examples.
THE 'CHARACTERS' OF JEAN DE LA BRUYREJEAN DE LA BRUYREThe ancients, it must be confessed, almost always spoke in allegories.
A PHILOSOPHICAL DICTIONARY, VOLUME 1 (OF 10)FRANOIS-MARIE AROUET (AKA VOLTAIRE)Just so will he judge of the ancients; not by their names—not by the age in which they lived—but by their works themselves.
A PHILOSOPHICAL DICTIONARY, VOLUME 1 (OF 10)FRANOIS-MARIE AROUET (AKA VOLTAIRE)And when the king was come to Tyre, three men were sent from the ancients to plead the cause before him.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUSThe common drama obliged him to a plot well formed and pleasant, or, as the ancients call it, one entire and great action.
THE WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN, VOLUME 4 (OF 18)JOHN DRYDEN