| 单词 | oldster |
| 释义 | oldster (once / 10000 pages) n WORD FAMILY oldster: oldsters USAGE EXAMPLESHis public schoolers are more likely to find a better source for energy than most of us oldsters, who are mainly consumers, not discoverers. Washington Times(Sep 27, 2016) Minutes for a school age child are like hours to an oldster like me. Seattle Times(Sep 12, 2016) Regrettably, they make their peace, but, for a moment, the sequence smacks of something threatening and fresh: oldster noir. ♦ The New Yorker(Sep 02, 2016) n an elderly person Syn|Hypo|Hyper golden ager, old person, senior citizen ancient, antediluvian a very old person centenariansomeone who is at least 100 years old curmudgeona crusty irascible cantankerous old person full of stubborn ideas doddererone who dodders from old age and weakness dodo, fogey, fogy, fossilsomeone whose style is out of fashion dotardan oldster in his dotage; someone whose age has impaired his intellect back-number, has-beensomeone who is no longer popular nonagenariansomeone whose age is in the nineties octogenariansomeone whose age is in the eighties old boya vivacious elderly man Methuselah, graybeard, greybeard, old mana man who is very old old womana woman who is old septuagenariansomeone whose age is in the seventies sexagenariansomeone whose age is in the sixties beldam, beldamea woman of advanced age codger, old codgerused affectionately to refer to an eccentric but amusing old man grannyan old woman beldam, beldame, crone, hag, witchan ugly evil-looking old woman mothera term of address for an elderly woman antique, gaffer, old geezer, old-timer, oldtimeran elderly man patriarcha man who is older and higher in rank than yourself adult, grownup a fully developed person from maturity onward |
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