The noun ancient has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. ancient, antediluvian -- (a very old person)
2. ancient -- (a person who lived in ancient times)
Overview of adj ancient
The adj ancient has 2 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (5) ancient -- (belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire; "ancient history"; "ancient civilizations such as those of the Etruscans and Sumerians"; "ancient Greece")
2. (4) ancient -- (very old; "an ancient mariner")