Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An old man.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A man with a gray beard; an old man.
  • noun Same as bellarmine.
  • noun The common sertularian hydroid polyp which infests oyster-beds, Sertularia argentea. When it forms patches on the shells, the oysters are said to hair up.
  • Having a gray beard; old.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun An old man.

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  • noun Alternative spelling of greybeard.

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

  • noun a man who is very old

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Examples

  • When Obama visited CIA headquarters last year in Langley, Virginia, he praised Kappes as the "graybeard" at the agency.

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  • When Obama visited CIA headquarters last year in Langley, Virginia, he praised Kappes as the "graybeard" at the agency.

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  • When Obama visited CIA headquarters last year in Langley, Virginia, he praised Kappes as the "graybeard" at the agency.

    Raw Story 2010

  • When Obama visited CIA headquarters last year in Langley, Virginia, he praised Kappes as the "graybeard" at the agency.

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  • The word "graybeard" is Shakespearean in origin, but really, there is no better example than Kurt Warner.

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  • The word "graybeard" is Shakespearean in origin, but really, there is no better example than Kurt Warner.

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  • But unlike Manning, this season has hardly been a business-as-usual campaign for the 40-year-old graybeard.

    NFL Replay: Favre might win record 4th MVP before Manning 2009

  • In his regular-season home debut for the Vikings, the 39-year-old graybeard showed exactly why Minnesota made such a passionate play to lure him out of retirement with a 32-yard TD dart to Greg Lewis with 2 seconds remaining.

    NFL Replay: Declining skills at the root of T.O.'s slow start 2009

  • Perhaps it stirred something in the graybeard Yankees—reminding them of the way they could never be counted out, until the last strike.

    Yanks Can't Pull Off a Blast from the Past Daniel Barbarisi 2011

  • As-Salem Musa, a turbaned Baluch graybeard, told me that his father and grandfather before him built boats.

    Pakistan’s Fatal Shore 2009

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