GRAY-HEADED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gray-headed mean? 

• GRAY-HEADED (adjective)
  The adjective GRAY-HEADED has 1 sense:

1. showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair

  Familiarity information: GRAY-HEADED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRAY-HEADED (adjective)

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 

Earnest young men found the gray-headed scholar as young at heart as they; thoughtful or troubled women instinctively brought their doubts to him, sure of finding the gentlest sympathy, the wisest counsel.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“To the wood, the flax, and the gander's wing!” said an old gray-headed archer on the right.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The peasant's gossip had been of the hunt, of the bracken, of the gray-headed kites that had nested in Wood Fidley, and of the great catch of herring brought back by the boats of Pitt's Deep.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)