OLD PERSON

Pronunciation (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does old person mean? 

• OLD PERSON (noun)
  The noun OLD PERSON has 1 sense:

1. an elderly person

  Familiarity information: OLD PERSON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OLD PERSON (noun)

Meaning:

An elderly person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

golden ager; old person; oldster; senior citizen

Hypernyms ("old person" is a kind of...):

adult; grownup (a fully developed person from maturity onward)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "old person"):

ancient; antediluvian (a very old person)

septuagenarian (someone whose age is in the seventies)

old woman (a woman who is old)

graybeard; greybeard; Methuselah; old man (a man who is very old)

old boy (a vivacious elderly man)

octogenarian (someone whose age is in the eighties)

nonagenarian (someone whose age is in the nineties)

back-number; has-been (someone who is no longer popular)

dotard (an oldster in his dotage; someone whose age has impaired his intellect)

dodo; fogey; fogy; fossil (someone whose style is out of fashion)

dodderer (one who dodders from old age and weakness)

curmudgeon (a crusty irascible cantankerous old person full of stubborn ideas)

centenarian (someone who is at least 100 years old)

sexagenarian (someone whose age is in the sixties)