Term: ancients: people who lived in times long past (especially during the historical period before the fall of the Roman Empire in western Europe)
Candidate hypernym: people: (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively → 1
Candidate hypernym: destitution: a state without friends or money or prospects → 0
Candidate hypernym: subdominant: (music) the fourth note of the diatonic scale → 0
Candidate hypernym: chuck: a holding device consisting of adjustable jaws that center a workpiece in a lathe or center a tool in a drill → 0
Candidate hypernym: shopkeeper: a merchant who owns or manages a shop → 0
Candidate hypernym: amethyst: a transparent purple variety of quartz; used as a gemstone → 0
Candidate hypernym: interspersion: the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things → 0
Candidate hypernym: dusty miller: herb with greyish leaves found along the east coast of North America; used as an ornamental plant → 0
Candidate hypernym: orientalist: a specialist in oriental subjects → 0
Candidate hypernym: pouteria: tropical American timber tree with edible fruit (canistel) → 0
Candidate hypernym: take-up: the action of taking up as by tightening or absorption or reeling in → 0