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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



... bees trooped down the frame, whispering. "What's the matter with 'em?" said the oldster. "Why do they call each other 'ducky' and 'darling'? Must be the weather." She sniffed suspiciously. "Horrid stuffy smell here. Like stale quilts. Not ...
— Actions and Reactions • Rudyard Kipling
... minded to go down into the garden on such a day and said to him, "Hast thou done as I bade thee with the Warder of the garden and hast thou made him taste of thy bounties?" He replied, "Yes, and the oldster is become my good friend: my way is his way and he would well I had need of him." Then he told her all that had happened and of the dream-paintings which the Wazir had caused to be limned in the pavilion; ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 7 • Richard F. Burton


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


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