older
Meaning of older
adjective
- Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time.
an old abandoned building; an old friend
- Having been used and thus no longer new or unused.
I find that an old toothbrush is good to clean the keyboard with.
- Having existed or lived for the specified time.
How old are they? She’s five years old and he's seven. We also have a young teen and a two-year-old child.
- (heading) Of an earlier time.
- Tiresome after prolonged repetition.
Your constant pestering is getting old.
- Said of subdued colors, particularly reds, pinks and oranges, as if they had faded over time.
- A grammatical intensifier, often used in describing something positive. (Mostly in idioms like good old, big old and little old, any old and some old.)
We're having a good old time. My next car will be a big old SUV. My wife makes the best little old apple pie in Texas.
- Excessive, abundant.
Information about older
- It is an adjective.
- The plural form of older is: olders.
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Hyphenation of older
older
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- older is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
older synonyms
Meaning aged:
Meaning elder:
Meaning old:
Meaning :
erstwhile, former, past, ancient, ageing, aging, antiquated, obsolete, outdated
older antonyms
Meaning :
current, latest, new, fresh, young
Translation of older
Anagrams of older
Words that rhyme with older
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