ancients
ayn chuhnts
- n people who lived in times long past (especially during the historical period before the fall of the Roman Empire in western Europe)
- n a very old person
- n a person who lived in ancient times
- Was Hoy considered to be off-limits to the ancients of Orkney? Its lack of any of those great burial chambers that proliferate on all the other inhabited islands suggests this may .
- I am, in fact, frustrated that we've civilized ourselves out of really satisfying scapegoat rituals: The ancients would have staged a mass immolation of the AIG casino pigs in .
- How could the ancients have been so wrong? Some scientists have attempted to explain away the discrepancy by suggesting that the astronomers of antiquity had observed the star when .