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older   (TTS Sound)

The adj older has 3 senses

• aged, elderly, older, senior -- (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")


• elder, older, sr. -- (used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son; "Bill Adams, Sr.")


• old, older -- (skilled through long experience; "an old offender"; "the older soldiers")

The adj old has 8 senses

• old -- ((used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age; "his mother is very old"; "a ripe old age"; "how old are you?")


• old -- (of long duration; not new; "old tradition"; "old house"; "old wine"; "old country"; "old friendships"; "old money")


• old -- ((used for emphasis) very familiar; "good old boy"; "same old story")


• old, older -- (skilled through long experience; "an old offender"; "the older soldiers")


• erstwhile, former, old, onetime, one-time, quondam, sometime -- (belonging to some prior time; "erstwhile friend"; "our former glory"; "the once capital of the state"; "her quondam lover")


• honest-to-god, honest-to-goodness, old, sure-enough -- ((used informally especially for emphasis); "a real honest-to-god live cowboy"; "had us a high old time"; "went upriver to look at a sure-enough fish wheel")


• Old -- (of a very early stage in development; "Old English is also called Anglo Saxon"; "Old High German is High German from the middle of the 9th to the end of the 11th century")


• previous, old -- (just preceding something else in time or order; "the previous owner"; "my old house was larger")