Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An elderly person.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An old or oldish person; a man past middle life.
- noun In the British navy, a midshipman of four years' standing, or a master's mate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Jocular An old person.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Someone who is
old -aged
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an elderly person
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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He replied, “Yes, and the oldster is become my good friend: my way is his way and he would well I had need of him.”
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Posner's view is that an individual is really almost 2 (or more) separate individuals throughout their lives, i.e., one might oppose SS as a youth (like I do, and like I am), but as an "oldster" realize they were wrong.
Social Security, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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And I really hate being in the position of the "oldster", my God.
Top Obama Adviser Hits "The Left Wing Of Our Party" For Criticizing Cabinet Picks 2009
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Posner's view is that an individual is really almost 2 (or more) separate individuals throughout their lives, i.e., one might oppose SS as a youth (like I do, and like I am), but as an "oldster" realize they were wrong.
Social Security, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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"oldster" (22) was to him an advantage rather than otherwise, for his six years in the Army had given him a certain prestige which was a help to his natural diffidence, and helped to open more doors to him, so that he was not limited to any set.
A Student in Arms Second Series Donald Hankey
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So my first thought was a complaint from an irate oldster about a perceived failure of government.
Andy Shaw: 'Angels' in Search of a Better Government Andy Shaw 2011
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The pressure at a depth of forty feet is no joke for a young man, yet it did not seem to inconvenience this oldster.
The Water Baby 2010
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This sixty-year oldster was mortally jealous because I was helping his perfectly rotund wife up and down some steep clay banks and finally turned on me with his knife open vowing that he intended to rip the guts out this young black son-of-a-bitch.
The Catcher of Songs Eddie Dean 2011
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Every so often, though not enough to establish pattern or arouse suspicion, a grateful oldster, unencumbered by grasping relatives, would leave him everything.
Shortcut Man P. G. Sturges 2011
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So my first thought was a complaint from an irate oldster about a perceived failure of government.
Andy Shaw: 'Angels' in Search of a Better Government Andy Shaw 2011
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