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  • adjective comparative form of old: more old, elder, senior
  • adjective elderly

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective skilled through long experience
  • adjective advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables)
  • adjective used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son

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Examples

  • They are surprisingly large for a handset of this size and well suited for the eyesight and "thumb skills" of older people (* older*, not * old* - ok, mom?).

    Blogbot - forsiden 2008

  • Hillary's woman problem is that her reach among women over 30 I don't want to use the term older women is unlikely to change much.

    Hillary's Woman Problem Part II Matt Johnston 2007

  • Cougars, that's what they call older women who date younger men.

    CNN Transcript May 22, 2009 2009

  • "They do it by seein" that primitive forms are in what they call the older layers.

    Space Michener, James 1982

  • Ouida would have said "heir to a title older than a thousand centuries," but I doubt if the English duke is so ancient as that, or a direct descendant of the Dukes of Edom mentioned in Holy Writ.

    In the Wrong Paradise Andrew Lang 1878

  • The Prime Minister sees a period of change affecting what she calls "older industries" and encouraging new ones.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

  • Ms Harman noted that Mark Thompson, BBC director-general, had acknowledged the need to have greater numbers of what he called "older women" on screen.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph Michael Deacon 2012

  • The Prime Minister sees a period of change affecting what she calls "older industries" and encouraging new ones.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

  • Mr. Gabriel Sanchez—his first name that of God’s messenger, his last a name older than America itself—won’t look at her, keeps his eyes on his cap, turning it in his hands as if feeling along the rim for some essential tactile detail.

    Healer Carol Wiley Cassella 2010

  • Not only teenagers and college students can be counted among the 'technologically inclined,' which means that trends are much more prone to take off in older age segments than they used to.

    Twitter traffic surging 2009

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