Ancients is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ANCIENTS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• ANCIENT, an old person
• people who lived in times long past (especially during the historical period before the fall of the Roman Empire in western Europe)
ADJECTIVE:
• having been in existence for a very long time
• showing or feeling signs of age or wear
• belonging to the very distant past and no longer in existence
• an old man
• a standard, flag, or ensign.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• one who lived in ancient times

Words related to ANCIENTS

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How to use ANCIENTS in a sentence

• But his literary enthusiasm was not confined to his own work and that of the ancients.
• IN THE MANUFACTURE OF THESE UTENSILS, bronze metal seems to have been much in favour with the ancients.
• By the ancients it was much used as a food, and is still common in France and Italy, to which countries it is, by some, considered indigenous.
• No wonder the ancients had chosen yellow as the color to represent victory, for the fierce, conquering hue of the sun was in it.
• It was the doctrine taught by Euhemerus among the ancients, and has been maintained among the moderns by such distinguished authorities as Bochart, Bryant, Voss, and Banier.
• For the ancients thought that nothing was more desirable than glory which was gained, not by brilliancy of wealth, but by address in arms.
• To say all at once, the Attick wit, of which the ancients made such boast, appears more in Aristophanes than in any other that I know of in antiquity.
• Be not full of words in a multitude of ancients, and repeat not the word in thy prayer.
• This district was known to the ancients as Zagros, while in modern geography it bears the names of Kurdistan and Luristan.
• This forms the chief portion of the region which the ancients called Media, as being the country inhabited by the race on whose history we are about to enter.
• Ovid among the ancients, and Dryden among the moderns, were perhaps the most remarkable for the want of it.
• Among the ancients, villages were reckoned the seats of barbarism.
• It has long been maintained that harmony was unknown to the ancients because of the mathematical measurement of sounds.
• Nor must we forget that the side of ethics which regards others is by the ancients merged in politics.
• And a considerable proportion of this kind of fear among the ancients is to be traced to the secret influence of the Mysteries, the revelations and terrors there applied.
• The ancients naturally liked to fancy the goddess very beautiful.
• It is not a hope of immortality such as the ancients had dreamed of for their heroes, where they continue, as it were, their earthly existence in blessed enjoyment.
• What an immense difference between the moderation of the ancients, and modern oppression and cruelty.
• It scarcely resisted the ancients of Dedham, when they attempted to steal it.
• Astronomy the most important of Sciences to the ancients, 597-u.
• Mysteries of the Ancients concealed the occult science of the Ancient Magi, 839-m.
• Nine considered by the ancients as a bad presage, 636-l.
• Universe to the ancients was a living thing, 596-m.
• This is the case in all situations, truly, and, in a high sense, tragic, such as the Tragedy of the ancients brings before our eyes.
• The superiority of the ancients is not in question.
• Not to have read it is not to know the deepest mind of the ancients.
• We become acquainted also, by means of it, with the sentiments and knowledge of the ancients.

Similar words containing ANCIENT without suffix s

ancient9 ancienter11 anciently14 ancientry14 ancientest12 ancientness13 ancientries13 ancientnesses15

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