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Old man

noun

A man who is very old. Synonyms: graybeard, greybeard, Methuselah.

A familiar term of address for a man. Synonym: old boy.

An informal term for your father.

Aromatic herb of temperate Eurasia and North Africa having a bitter taste used in making the liqueur absinthe. Synonyms: absinthe, Artemisia absinthium, common wormwood, lad's love.

(slang) boss.

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"Old man" Quotes from Famous Books

... if all were reckoned as effective who were not stretched on the earth by fever, did not now exceed five thousand. These were hardly equal to their ordinary duty; and yet it was necessary to harass them with double duty. Nevertheless so masterly were the old man's dispositions that with this small force he faced during several weeks twenty thousand troops who were accompanied by a multitude of armed banditti. At length early in November the Irish dispersed, and went to winter quarters. The ...

— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 3 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... itself. The old chieftains intend to take no more chances. They feel that their Great Conspiracy is now assured of success, inside the Union. They hesitate not to declare that the power once held by them, and temporarily lost, is regained. Like the Old Man of the Sea, they are now on ...

— The Great Conspiracy, Complete • John Alexander Logan

... with the gentle sadness of quite an old man, "I dare say there is more in that than you think. Even ...

— The Inheritors • Joseph Conrad

... did I never mention him to you? He is here; but was not with us on the campaign, being too unwell when we started. Though not an old man, he is a very old soldier for an Indian, and is nearly worn out: he is anxious to get his discharge at the end of the year, when he will have served his twenty-one years, and be entitled to a decent pension. He is a very straight-forward, blunt, ...

— Campaign of the Indus • T.W.E. Holdsworth

... afterwards lived at Ealing, adopted the reformed doctrines, perverting all his house with him. They were expelled thence by the edict of his most Christian Majesty, and came to London, and set up their looms in Spittlefields. The old man brought a little money with him, and carried on his trade, but in a poor way. He was a widower; by this time his daughter, a widow too, kept house for him, and his son and he laboured together at their vocation. Meanwhile your father had publicly owned his conversion just before King ...

— Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges • William Makepeace Thackeray

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