Plural of ancient
regular plural
The plural of ancient is ancients.
Forms of ancient
| Singular | ancient /ˈeɪn.ʃənt/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | ancients |
| Countable | countable |
Ancients in a sentence
- What is ancient for us was in its own time a reworking of what was ancient for the ancients.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London...
- The ancients regarded linseed as a source of medical benefits.From the entry linseed
- The ancients believed that nature abhors a vacuum.From the entry nature abhors a vacuum
- For better or worse, we stand on the shoulders of the ancients, if not at their feet.2012, Andrew J. Schatkin, chapter 4, in Essays on the Christian Worldview and Others Political, Literary, and Philosophical, page 107. From the entry stand on someone's shoulders
- The ancients represented this fundamental duality mythologically as God and Goddess.2001, Timothy Freke, Peter Gandy, Jesus and the Lost Goddess, page 133. From the entry god
Meaning of ancient
- adjective Having lasted from a remote period; having been of long duration; of great age, very old.
- adjective Existent or occurring in time long past, usually in remote ages; belonging to or associated with antiquity; old, as opposed to modern.
- adjective Relating to antiquity as a primarily European historical period; the time before the Middle Ages.
Questions about the plural of ancient
- What is the plural of ancient?
- The plural of ancient is ancients.
- Is ancient countable?
- Ancient is a countable noun.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: ancient (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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