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  1. n. an elderly person

Examples

  • “The lies — the lies to a lovely old person like Mrs. Chessingham.”

    The Satan Bug

  • “He was a vast, untidy old person draped in elephant-grey clothes which managed to convey that there was something extraordinary about their cut without being actually peculiar in any definable particular.”

    Flowers for the Judge

  • “Ann Cason says that the silence of an old person drives us crazy because we all long to be “confirmed,” and this silence, so common to the old with their diminished health and strength and declining interest in conversation, is the ultimate lack of confirmation.”

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hypernyms (2)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. grownup
  1. adult

hyponyms (22)

Words that are more specific

  1. sexagenarian
  2. dodderer
  3. back-number
  4. octogenarian
  1. centenarian
  2. fogey
  3. dodo
  4. old boy
  1. fogy
  2. greybeard
  3. ancient
  4. curmudgeon
  1. nonagenarian
  2. dotard
  3. antediluvian
  4. fossil
  1. Methuselah
  2. old man
  3. old woman
  4. graybeard
  1. septuagenarian
  2. has-been

reverse dictionary (98)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. fogy
  2. nonagenarian
  3. ancient
  4. sexagenarian
  5. septuagenarian
  6. curmudgeon
  7. antediluvian
  8. centenarian
  9. codger
  10. auld-farand
  11. party
  12. frump
  13. faldworth
  14. geezer
  15. old-age pensioner
  16. age
  17. eld
  18. ironside
  19. kenning
  1. talkative
  2. idiot
  3. duffer
  4. file
  5. l'envoi
  6. crock
  7. geromorphism
  8. laudator
  9. Brahman
  10. manbote
  11. manucaption
  12. oldster
  13. septuagenary
  14. stick-in-the-mud
  15. aventure
  16. chuff
  17. cove
  18. daffler
  19. expenditor
  1. fletwite
  2. forfang
  3. gleek
  4. hushel
  5. in-and-in
  6. latitat
  7. old money
  8. quinquagenarian
  9. mossback
  10. Belonger
  11. knacker
  12. magnifico
  13. action on the case
  14. voting age
  15. fuddy-duddy
  16. coot
  17. money
  18. square
  19. square-toes
  1. bird
  2. good egg
  3. agerasia
  4. antitype
  5. bad egg
  6. moron
  7. nouveau riche
  8. old maid
  9. Scaramouch
  10. voucher
  11. year 2000 bug
  12. antiquity
  13. bauson
  14. bleed
  15. child
  16. coon
  17. coscinomancy
  18. de lunatico inquirendo
  19. grizzle
  1. huddle
  2. maim
  3. major
  4. middle
  5. obit
  6. occupation
  7. old
  8. old-fashioned
  9. old-fashionedness
  10. old-light
  11. old-timer
  12. pagan
  13. postliminy
  14. roarer
  15. royal
  16. sire
  17. squint
  18. stager
  19. type
  1. viaticum
  2. wearisome
  3. with

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