[
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 software is also a great customization solution for those who would like to alter the look and feel of the Finder, Dock and login window, making it easy to prebind and re-prebind their entire system or selected folders, run cron scripts, change startup mode and language, force empty trash, update "whatis," locate databases, and so on. Softpedia News - Global
- Such schemes help older homeowners to unlock money from their property without selling. Times, Sunday Times
- 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