ancients

English Thesaurus

1. people who lived in times long past (especially during the historical period before the fall of the Roman Empire in western Europe) (noun.group)

hypernym	:	people,
definition	:	(plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively (noun.group)

domain region	:	roman empire,
definition	:	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 (noun.location)

domain usage	:	plural, plural form,
definition	:	the form of a word that is used to denote more than one (noun.communication)