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| Main Entry: |
over-the-hill
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | past middle age |
| Synonyms: | ancient, elderly, gray, old, past one's prime |
| Main Entry: | golden ager |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | senior |
| Synonyms: | ancient, doyen, doyenne, elder, elderly person, first-born, golden-ager, grandfather, grandmother, head, matriarch, old folk, old-timer, oldster, patriarch, pensioner, retired person, senior citizen |
| Main Entry: | olden |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | old |
| Synonyms: | aboriginal, age-old, ancient, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, archaic, bygone, cast-off, crumbling, dated, decayed, demode, done, early, erstwhile, former, hackneyed*, hoary, immemorial, late, moth-eaten, of old, of yore, old as Methuselah, old as the hills, old-fashioned, old-time, oldfangled, once, onetime, original, out-of-date, outmoded, passé, past, primeval, primitive, primordial, pristine, quondam, relic, remote, rusty, sometime, stale, superannuated, time-worn, timeworn, traditional, unfashionable, unoriginal, venerable, worn-out |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | oldster |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | senior |
| Synonyms: | ancient, doyen, doyenne, elder, elderly person, first-born, golden ager, golden-ager, grandfather, grandmother, head, matriarch, old folk, old-timer, patriarch, pensioner, retired person, senior citizen |
| Main Entry: | passe |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | old-fashioned |
| Synonyms: | ancient, antiquated, antique, archaic, behind the times, bygone, corny*, dated, dead*, demoded, disapproved, dowdy, démodé, extinct, fusty, grown old, moldy, musty, neglected, not current, not modern, not with it, obsolescent, obsolete, odd*, of old, of olden days, of the old school, old, old-fangled, old-hat, old-time, olden, oldfangled, out of it, out of style, out*, out-of-date, out-of-style, outdated, outmoded, outworn, passé, past, primitive, rococo, superannuated, unfashionable, unstylish, vintage |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | early |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, adverb |
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anticipatory, early, forward, immediate, in time, near, near at hand, precipitate, precocious, premature, prepunctual, prevenient, prime, prompt, punctual, rath, sudden, summary, timely, unexpected
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| Main Entry: | past |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun |
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ancestral, archaeological, blown over, bygone, cidevant, elapsed, expired, exploded, extinct, foregoing, foregone, forgotten, former, gone, gone by, hesternal, irrecoverable, lapsed, last, late, latter, looking back, never to return, no more, nudiustertian, obsolete, over, overnight, passed away, past, preterite, preteritial, preterlapsed, preterperfect, preterpluperfect, pridian, pristine, quondam, recent, retroactive, retrospective, run out, sometime, that has been, thenadays, whilom, yestern
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