Meaning of OLDER
Pronunciation: | | 'owldur
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- [adj] older brother or sister; "big sister"
- [adj] old in experience; "an old offender"; "the older soldiers"
- [adj] 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"
- [adj] used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son; "Bill Adams, Sr."
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| Synonyms: | | aged, big(a), elder, elderly, experienced, old, senior, sr. |
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| Antonyms: | | little(a), younger | |
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| Related Terms: | | antecedent, anterior, anticipatory, centenarian, ci-devant, dean, dotard, doyen, doyenne, earlier, early, elder, eldest, father, Father Time, first, first-born, firstling, fore, foregoing, former, gaffer, geezer, golden-ager, gramps, grandfather, grandsire, graybeard, major, Methuselah, Nestor, nonagenarian, octogenarian, old chap, old codger, old dog, old duffer, old geezer, old gent, old gentleman, old man, Old Paar, old party, oldest, oldster, old-timer, 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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