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[ adjective ] advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables)
Examples "aged members of the society" "elderly residents could remember the construction of the first skyscraper" "senior citizen" Used in print ("Editorials"...)Nearly 18 per_cent of West_Berlin 's 2200000 residents are sixty-five or older , only 12.8 per_cent are under fifteen . (Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)Says Wallace_F._Jannsen , director of the FDA 's Division_of_Public_Information : `` Quacks are apt to direct their appeal directly to older people , or to sufferers from chronic ailments such_as arthritis , rheumatism , diabetes , and cancer . (J. W. C. Hagstrom et al., "Debilitating muscular...)The case described in this paper is that of an older man who developed disabling muscular weakness while receiving a variety of steroids for a refractory anemia . (Tristram Coffin, Not to the Swift....)He thought how this dainty , fragile older woman threading her way through the streets of Westminster on a day in June , enjoying the flowers in the shops , the greetings from old friends , but never really drawing a deep , passionate breath , was so like himself . (Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)She was the last living of the older generation . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] older brother or sister
Examples "big sister" Used in print (The Dallas Morning News,...)It would authorize the Texas_Education_Agency to establish county-wide day_schools for the deaf in counties of 300000 or more population , require deaf children between 6 and 13 years of_age to attend the day_schools , permitting older ones to attend the residential Texas_School_for_the_Deaf here . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son
Examples "Bill Adams, Sr." Used in print (Jaroslav Pelikan, The Shape of Death: life, death and...)Such efforts almost always find themselves compelled to ask whether Adam was created capable of growing old and_then older and_then still older , in_short , whether Adam 's life was intended to be part of the process of time . (Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)I used_to play with the older one sometimes , when he 'd let me . (Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)She was only ten months older than he . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] old in experience
Synonyms Examples "an old offender" "the older soldiers" Related terms |
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