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Oldster   /ˈoʊldstər/   Listen
Oldster

noun
1.
An elderly person.  Synonyms: golden ager, old person, senior citizen.





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"Oldster" Quotes from Famous Books



... breathless girl would drop out and rest a moment leaning against the wall. And just for fun an oldster like Old Buck Rawlins, who didn't even have a partner, caught up one boot toe and hopped ...
— Blue Ridge Country • Jean Thomas
... the King's slaves fell upon him and carried him and the lady and the horse to their master who, noting the foulness of the man's favour and his loathsomeness and the beauty of the girl and her loveliness, said, "O my lady, what kin is this oldster to thee?" The Persian made haste to reply, saying, "She is my wife and the daughter of my father's brother." But the lady at once gave him the lie and said, "O King, by Allah, I know him not, nor is he my husband; nay, he ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton
... "Oh—" The oldster kicked one of them lightly with his toe. The pink thing rolled against the wall. There were vestigial signs of arms, legs, but tiny and useless, grown fast to the body. The visitor glanced up ...
— Collectivum • Mike Lewis


Words linked to "Oldster" :   dodderer, dodo, Methuselah, greybeard, centenarian, fossil, grownup, dotard, sexagenarian, graybeard, back-number, antediluvian, ancient, nonagenarian, old boy, octogenarian, adult, old man, septuagenarian, fogey, fogy, has-been, old woman, curmudgeon, senior citizen


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