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older

adjectiveadjectivecommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈəʊldə//
  • United States//ˈoʊldɚ//

elderly

adjective

  1. 1

    Also a form of oldcomparative form of old: more old, elder, senior

    My older brother and I are Catholic twins. He’s older by eleven months, not quite a year older than me.

    I feel a hot wind on my shoulder / And the touch of a world that is older

adjective

  1. 1

    elderly

    The thoughtful lad helped an older lady across the street.

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Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).