Ancients
Ancients noun - People who lived in times long past (especially during the historical period before the fall of the Roman Empire in western Europe).
Ancestor and ancients are semantically related. in older person topic. In some cases you can use "Ancestor" instead a noun "Ancients".
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Ancestor and Ancients. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 28, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/ancients/ancestor
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