| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | An elderly person: elder, golden ager, senior, senior citizen. Informal : oldster, old-timer. See YOUTH. | | ADJECTIVE: | 1. Of, existing, or occurring in a distant period: antediluvian, early, primitive. See START. 2. Long past: high, immemorial. See NEW. 3. Belonging to, existing, or occurring in times long past: age-old, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, archaic, hoary, old, olden, old-time, timeworn, venerable. Idioms: old as Methuselah, old as the hills. See NEW.
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