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ANCIENTS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
People who lived in times long past (especially during the historical period before the fall of the Roman Empire in western Europe)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("ancients" is a kind of...):
people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)
Domain region:
Roman Empire (an empire established by Augustus in 27 BC and divided in AD 395 into the Western Roman Empire and the eastern or Byzantine Empire; at its peak lands in Europe and Africa and Asia were ruled by ancient Rome)
Domain usage:
plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)
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