Definitions for Older

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Older old·er

Spelling: [ohl-der]

IPA: /ˈoʊl dər/

Older is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 67 anagrams from letters in Older (delor).

Definitions for Older

noun

1. (used with a plural verb) old persons collectively (usually preceded by the):
2. a person or animal of a specified age or age group (used in combination):
3. old or former time, often time long past:

adjective

1. a comparative of old.
2. far advanced in the years of one's or its life:
3. of or relating to the latter part of the life or term of existence of a person or thing:
4. as if or appearing to be far advanced in years:
5. having lived or existed for a specified time:
6. having lived or existed as specified with relation to younger or newer persons or things:
7. having been aged for a specified time:
8. having been aged for a comparatively long time:
9. long known or in use:
10. overfamiliar to the point of tedium:
11. belonging to the past:
12. having been in existence since the distant past:
13. no longer in general use:
14. acquired, made, or in use by one prior to the acquisition, making, or use of something more recent:
15. of, relating to, or originating at an earlier period or date:
16. prehistoric; ancient:
17. (initial capital letter) (of a language) in its oldest known period, as attested by the earliest written records:
18. experienced:
19. of long standing; having been such for a comparatively long time:
20. (of colors) dull, faded, or subdued:
21. deteriorated through age or long use; worn, decayed, or dilapidated:
22. Physical Geography. (of landforms) far advanced in reduction by erosion or the like.
23. sedate, sensible, mature, or wise:
24. (used to indicate affection, familiarity, disparagement, or a personalization):
25. Informal. (used as an intensive) great; uncommon:
26. former; having been so formerly:

Origin of Older

before 900; Middle English; Old English eald, ald; cognate with Dutch old, German alt, Gothic altheis; akin to Old Norse ala to nourish

Examples for Older

But as you get older, I find I get more tunes and I have to work harder at the words.

There are only Evelyn and I, and I am fifteen years older than she.

Do you think that as we get older our thoughts shift to the more abstract, the music, than the definite, the lyrics?

Philip, you are older and wiser than I, and have shown already that you understand her.

She was in a box with two men—one old and one young—and an older woman.

I'd rather trust your judgment now than lots of older men down there.

The older boy climbed in first, followed by the younger son and then their mother.

Julio Cardenas, 25 and an MC from the group RCA, was older but with a youthful smile that hid the harsher sides of Cuban life.

He was older than I, experienced with women—a lover of women, I came to understand in time.

Ramos was 38—nearly two decades older than the average recruit.