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

[ Syn: aged , elderly , senior ]

used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son; Bill Adams, Sr.

[ Syn: elder , sr. ]

skilled through long experience; an old offender; the older soldiers

[ Syn: old ]