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older

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Adjective, Noun
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective older has 3 senses

  • older(s = adj.all) aged, elderly, senior - advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables); "aged members of the society"; "elderly residents could remember the construction of the first skyscraper"; "senior citizen"
  • older(s = adj.all) elder, sr. - used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son; "Bill Adams, Sr."
  • older(s = adj.all) old - skilled through long experience; "an old offender"; "the older soldiers"

THESAURUS

older

Father Time, Methuselah, Nestor, Old Paar, antecedent, anterior, anticipatory, centenarian, ci-devant, dean, dotard, doyen, doyenne, earlier, early, elder, eldest, father, first, first-born, firstling, fore, foregoing, former, gaffer, geezer, golden-ager, gramps, grandfather, grandsire, graybeard, major, nonagenarian, octogenarian, old chap, old codger, old dog, old duffer, old geezer, old gent, old gentleman, old man, old party, old-timer, oldest, oldster, pantaloon, patriarch, preceding, precurrent, preexistent, presbyter, previous, prime, primogenitary, prior, senior, senior citizen, septuagenarian, sexagenarian, sire, the quiet-voiced elders, venerable sir, veteran

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Age

N age, oldness, old age, advanced age, golden years, senility, senescence, years, anility, gray hairs, climacteric, grand climacteric, declining years, decrepitude, hoary age, caducity, superannuation, second childhood, second childishness, dotage, vale of years, decline of life, sear and yellow leaf, threescore years and ten, green old age, ripe age, longevity, time of life, seniority, eldership, elders, firstling, doyen, father, primogeniture, geriatrics, nostology, aged, old, elderly, geriatric, senile, matronly, anile, in years, ripe, mellow, run to seed, declining, waning, past one's prime, gray, gray-headed, hoar, hoary, venerable, time-worn, antiquated, passe, effete, decrepit, superannuated, advanced in life, advanced in years, stricken in years, wrinkled, marked withthe crow's foot, having one foot in the grave, doting, like the last of pea time, older, elder, eldest, senior, firstborn, turned of, years old, of a certain age, no chicken, old as Methuselah, ancestral, patriarchal, gerontic, give me a staff of honor for my age, bis pueri senes, peu de gens savent elre vieux, plenus annis abiit plenus honoribus, old age is creeping on apace, slow-consuming age, the hoary head is a crown of glory, the silver livery of advised age, to grow old gracefully, to vanish in the chinks that Time has made.

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