old person
Noun
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An elderly person (synset 110396222)
subtypes:
- ancient, antediluvian - a very old person
- centenarian - someone who is at least 100 years old
- curmudgeon - a crusty irascible cantankerous old person full of stubborn ideas
- dodderer - one who dodders from old age and weakness
- dodo, fogey, fogy, fossil - someone whose style is out of fashion
- dotard - an oldster in his dotage; someone whose age has impaired his intellect
- back-number, has-been - someone who is no longer popular
- nonagenarian - someone whose age is in the nineties
- octogenarian - someone whose age is in the eighties
- old boy - a vivacious elderly man
- graybeard, greybeard, methuselah, old man - a man who is very old
- old woman - a woman who is old
- septuagenarian - someone whose age is in the seventies
- sexagenarian - someone whose age is in the sixties
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