[
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 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
- This also suggests that this deity was first adopted by the tradition of the monastery of Sa-gya, [26] a hypothesis further confirmed by the reference in the founding myth to his being taken over by the holder of the Sa-gya throne So-nam-rin-chen (bsod nams rin chen). The Shugden Affair: Origins of a Controversy (Part I)