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  1. aged, elderly, older, senioradjective

    advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables)

    "aged members of the society"; "elderly residents could remember the construction of the first skyscraper"; "senior citizen"

    Synonyms:
    aged, senior(a), old, cured, sr., elderly, elder, ripened, senior, aged(a), of age(p), fourth-year

    Antonyms:
    immature, young, junior, inexperienced, inexperient

  2. elder, older, sr.adjective

    used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son

    "Bill Adams, Sr."

    Synonyms:
    senior, aged, old, sr., elder, elderly

    Antonyms:
    inexperienced, inexperient, young, immature, junior

  3. old, olderadjective

    skilled through long experience

    "an old offender"; "the older soldiers"

    Synonyms:
    quondam(a), elder, previous(a), senior, old, sr., old(a), former(a), one-time(a), honest-to-god, erstwhile(a), honest-to-goodness, onetime(a), aged, sure-enough(a), sometime(a), elderly

    Antonyms:
    immature, young, inexperienced, inexperient, junior

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  1. olderadjective

    Synonyms:
    senior, elder

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  1. List of paraphrases for "older":

    elderly, oldest, age, old, ageing, aged, seniors, elder, senior, more, old-age, previous, elders

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How to use older in a sentence?

  1. Christopher Dearborn:

    They will continue to downplay his role and play up the role of his older brother, trying to create the impression that his older brother was the puppeteer and he was the puppet, i don't think they have any hope of prevailing in the guilt phase, but their strategy will continue to be to gain some credibility with the jury by conceding what they had to concede and hoping to try to humanize the kid a little bit so that will carry over into the second phase of the trial.

  2. Shelley Clark:

    Having older siblings help with child care is very common in most low-income settings. Although older brothers may also help with child care, the burden of child care seems to be more detrimental for older sisters, we find that female adolescents living in the household are twice as likely to be attending high school if the mother uses day care than if she does not use day care.

  3. Tom Waits:

    When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.

  4. Nancy Astor:

    I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.

  5. Cat Ellington:

    I prefer older men. That’s right, older men. I like my men ‘well-seasoned,’ if you will, meaning with a little bit of ‘salt and pepper’ sprinkled in their hairy parts.


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