'older' definitions:
Definition of 'older'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables); "aged members of the society"; "elderly residents could remember the construction of the first skyscraper"; "senior citizen" [syn: aged, elderly, older, senior]
adjective
Used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son; "Bill Adams, Sr." [syn: elder, older, sr.]
adjective
Skilled through long experience; "an old offender"; "the older soldiers" [syn: old, older]
Synonyms of 'older'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- antecedent,
- anterior,
- anticipatory,
- centenarian,
- ci-devant,
- dean,
- dotard,
- doyen,
- doyenne,
- earlier,
- early,
- elder,
- eldest,
- father,
- Father Time,
- first,
- first-born,
- firstling,
- fore,
- foregoing,
- former,
- gaffer,
- geezer,
- golden-ager,
- gramps,
- grandfather,
- grandsire,
- graybeard,
- major,
- Methuselah,
- Nestor,
- nonagenarian,
- octogenarian,
- old chap,
- old codger,
- old dog,
- old duffer,
- old geezer,
- old gent,
- old gentleman,
- old man,
- Old Paar,
- old party,
- old-timer,
- oldest,
- oldster,
- pantaloon,
- patriarch,
- preceding,
- precurrent,
- preexistent,
- presbyter,
- previous,
- prime,
- primogenitary,
- prior,
- senior,
- senior citizen,
- septuagenarian,
- sexagenarian,
- sire,
- the quiet-voiced elders,
- venerable sir,
- veteran