| NOUN | person | senior citizen, oldster, old person, golden ager | an elderly person |
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| Meaning | An elderly person. | |
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| Synonyms | oldster, old person, golden ager | |
| Narrower | ancient, antediluvian | A very old person |
| centenarian | someone who is at least 100 years old | |
| curmudgeon | A crusty irascible cantankerous old person full of stubborn ideas | |
| dodderer | One who dodders from old age and weakness | |
| dodo, fogy, fogey, fossil | someone whose style is out of fashion | |
| dotard | An oldster in his dotage | |
| has-been, back-number | someone who is no longer popular | |
| nonagenarian | someone whose age is in the nineties | |
| octogenarian | someone whose age is in the eighties | |
| old boy | A vivacious elderly man | |
| old man, greybeard, graybeard, Methuselah | A man who is very old | |
| old woman | A woman who is old | |
| septuagenarian | someone whose age is in the seventies | |
| sexagenarian | someone whose age is in the sixties | |
| Broader | adult, grownup | A fully developed person from maturity onward |
| Spanish | persona mayor | |
| Catalan | persona gran | |
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