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US
/ˈoʊɫdɝ/
]
[ UK /ˈəʊldɐ/ ]
[ UK /ˈəʊldɐ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
skilled through long experience
an old offender
the older soldiers -
used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son
Bill Adams, Sr. -
advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables)
elderly residents could remember the construction of the first skyscraper
aged members of the society
senior citizen
How To Use older In A Sentence
- Statutory rape laws were first enacted to protect minors from older predators.
- Frankly I don't understand why most companies don't follow the same policy as franked income in the hands of shareholders is worth a lot more to them than huge piles of franking credits mouldering away in the company's balance sheet.
- The space left by evaporation is called the ullage, while the liquid lost is sometimes called the ‘angels' share’ and is particularly financially significant in the production of older cognac and Armagnac.
- The cash raising was not unexpected and allows a few more shareholders on board. Times, Sunday Times
- He is still very much alive and he looks just like his pictures, only considerably older of course.
- Last year there was only me and AA who were 1st years, plus AA is heaps older and I didn't know her at all.
- He appealed to all householders to continually check their security arrangements.
- Hillary's woman problem is that her reach among women over 30 I don't want to use the term older women is unlikely to change much. Hillary's Woman Problem Part II
- We're looking at some idea that it might be a colder than normal winter in the Northeast and Midwest.
- You will read for yourself, by and by, many others: stories of older Saints, and perhaps of brighter Saints, or it may be even of saintlier Saints than these. A Book of Quaker Saints