ancients vs plural

ancients and plural both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
ancients	Yes	No	No	No
plural	Yes	Yes	No	No

ancients (noun)	plural (noun)
people who lived in times long past (especially during the historical period before the fall of the Roman Empire in western Europe)	the form of a word that is used to denote more than one

ancients (adjective)	plural (adjective)
	grammatical number category referring to two or more items or units
	composed of more than one member, set, or kind