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GRAY-HAIRED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does gray-haired mean?
• GRAY-HAIRED (adjective)
The adjective GRAY-HAIRED has 1 sense:
1. showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair
Familiarity information: GRAY-HAIRED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair
Synonyms:
gray; gray-haired; gray-headed; grey; grey-haired; grey-headed; grizzly; hoar; hoary; white-haired
Context example:
nodded his hoary head
Similar:
old ((used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age)
Context examples
“The council will not break up until the banquet,” remarked a gray-haired squire.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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