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).
Oldest and ancients are semantically related. in older person topic. In some cases you can use "Oldest" instead a noun "Ancients".
Oldest
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- Egypt is one of humanity's oldest civilizations, so old that it was ancient to the ancients.
Source: Newer Than They Think - The oldest version of this trope (the Soothsayer) tends to make this characteristic work, as they're openly presented as slightly creepy, imposing ancients.
Source: The Empath -
The Archons are even older, the Ancients were around before them, and the oldest are the Earthlords, who are at least tens of millions of years old.
Source: Time Abyss
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