Definition: skilled through long experience
Usage: an old offender; the older soldiers
Similar words: experienced, experient
Definition: having experience; having knowledge or skill from observation or participation
Synonyms: older, senior, aged, elderly
Definition: advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables)
Usage: aged members of the society; elderly residents could remember the construction of the first skyscraper; senior citizen
Similar words: old
Definition: (used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age
Usage: his mother is very old; a ripe old age; how old are you?
Definition: used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son
Usage: Bill Adams, Sr.
Similar words: senior
Definition: older; higher in rank; longer in length of tenure or service
Usage: senior officer