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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- 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
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When Obama visited CIA headquarters last year in Langley, Virginia, he praised Kappes as the "graybeard" at the agency.
iac world news feed 2010
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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
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When Obama visited CIA headquarters last year in Langley, Virginia, he praised Kappes as the "graybeard" at the agency.
iac world news feed 2010
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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
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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
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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
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As-Salem Musa, a turbaned Baluch graybeard, told me that his father and grandfather before him built boats.
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