Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal An elderly person.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An old or oldish person; a man past middle life.
- n. In the British navy, a midshipman of four years' standing, or a master's mate.
Wiktionary
- n. Someone who is old-aged
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Jocular An old person.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an elderly person
Etymologies
- Derived from old + -ster. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“He replied, “Yes, and the oldster is become my good friend: my way is his way and he would well I had need of him.””
“And I really hate being in the position of the "oldster", my God.”
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“Posner's view is that an individual is really almost 2 (or more) separate individuals throughout their lives, i.e., one might oppose SS as a youth (like I do, and like I am), but as an "oldster" realize they were wrong.”
Social Security, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“oldster" (22) was to him an advantage rather than otherwise, for his six years in the Army had given him a certain prestige which was a help to his natural diffidence, and helped to open more doors to him, so that he was not limited to any set.”
“Every so often, though not enough to establish pattern or arouse suspicion, a grateful oldster, unencumbered by grasping relatives, would leave him everything.”
“So my first thought was a complaint from an irate oldster about a perceived failure of government.”
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“The pressure at a depth of forty feet is no joke for a young man, yet it did not seem to inconvenience this oldster.”
“This sixty-year oldster was mortally jealous because I was helping his perfectly rotund wife up and down some steep clay banks and finally turned on me with his knife open vowing that he intended to rip the guts out this young black son-of-a-bitch.”
“He was probably no more than forty, but with his deep-set eyes, hollowed-out cheeks, and skeletal frame, Piric looked to be in greater need of medical attention than the oldster he was pushing ahead of him in a wheelchair.”
“Driving around town all morning, I came across an oldster poking around for aluminum.”
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Steroids
Nouns that end in "ster". The -er suffix (as in blaster) doesn't count.
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