GREY-HAIRED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grey-haired mean? 

• GREY-HAIRED (adjective)
  The adjective GREY-HAIRED has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: GREY-HAIRED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GREY-HAIRED (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 

The man whom he called Morgan—an old, grey-haired, mahogany-faced sailor—came forward pretty sheepishly, rolling his quid.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

There soon appeared, pausing in the dark doorway as he entered, a hale, grey-haired old man.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

When he entered the forest he met a little grey-haired old man who bade him good day, and said: Do give me a piece of cake out of your pocket, and let me have a draught of your wine; I am so hungry and thirsty.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Stanley Hopkins led us first to the house, where he introduced us to a haggard, grey-haired woman, the widow of the murdered man, whose gaunt and deep-lined face, with the furtive look of terror in the depths of her red-rimmed eyes, told of the years of hardship and ill-usage which she had endured.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)