Definitions for older

Definitions for (adj) older

Main entry: old, older

Definition: skilled through long experience

Usage: an old offender; the older soldiers


Main entry: 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


Main entry: sr., elder, older

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.


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