ancients

as innative
as insenior
as ingolden ager
as inoldster
as inelder

Synonyms for ancients

noun person born in the country in which he/she dwells

Antonyms for ancients

Word Origin & History

mid-14c., auncyen, from Old French ancien "old, long-standing, ancient," from Vulgar Latin *anteanus, literally "from before," adjectivization of Latin ante "before, in front of, against" (from PIE *anti "against," locative singular of *ant- "front, forehead;" see ante). The parasitic -t dates from 15c. by influence of words in -ent.

Specifically, in history, "belonging to the period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire" (and contrasted with medieval and modern). In English law, "from before the Norman Conquest." Ancient of Days is from Dan. vii:9. Related: Anciently.

Example Sentences for ancients

The ancients, Sir, are the ancients; but we are the moderns.

I wasn't so enamoured with the ancients as I thought I was; but I was enamoured with your contemplation of my pose.

Other electrical effects were also observed by the ancients.

The lake by which the ancients entered the infernal regions.

Or what is it that their own very names are often counterfeit or borrowed from some books of the ancients?

"We cannot condemn him," replied the priests and the ancients.

And then, how do we know that words had the same meaning to the ancients as they have to us?

Among the ancients, the goddess Venus or Aphrodite was the symbol of beauty and love.

It was, however, one of the ancients who said "I am a man and nothing human can be strange to me."

In common with other ancients they knew the principle of the mariner's compass.