<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>of or in time long past, especially before the end of the Western Roman Empire a.d. 476: ancient history.</li><li>Synonyms: early</li><li>Antonyms: recent</li><li>dating from a remote period; of great age: ancient trees.</li><li>Synonyms: immemorial, age-old</li><li>Antonyms: recent, modern, new</li><li>very old; aged: She's fifteen, which is ancient for a dog that size.</li><li>being old in wisdom and experience; venerable.</li><li>old-fashioned or antique.</li><li>Synonyms: vintage, retro, old-time, old-fashioned, olden, antique</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a person who lived in ancient times.</li><li>one of the classical writers of antiquity.</li><li>a very old or aged person, especially if venerable or patriarchal.</li><li>ancients, Usually the ancients.</li><li>the civilized peoples, nations, or cultures of antiquity, as the Greeks, Romans, Hebrews, and Egyptians.</li><li>the writers, artists, and philosophers of ancient times, especially those of Greece and Rome.</li></ul>