METHUSELAH

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• METHUSELAH (noun)
  The noun METHUSELAH has 2 senses:

1. (Old Testament) a patriarch (grandfather of Noah) who is said to have lived 969 years

2. a man who is very old

  Familiarity information: METHUSELAH used as a noun is rare.

• METHUSELAH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Old Testament) a patriarch (grandfather of Noah) who is said to have lived 969 years

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

patriarch (any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race)

Domain category:

Old Testament (the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A man who is very old

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

graybeard; greybeard; Methuselah; old man

Hypernyms ("Methuselah" is a kind of...):

adult male; man (an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman))

golden ager; old person; oldster; senior citizen (an elderly person)

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

codger; old codger (used affectionately to refer to an eccentric but amusing old man)

antique; gaffer; old-timer; old geezer; oldtimer (an elderly man)

patriarch (a man who is older and higher in rank than yourself)

 Context examples 

Why was it that Methuselah lived nine hundred years, and 'Old Parr' one hundred and sixty-nine, and yet that poor Lucy, with four men's blood in her poor veins, could not live even one day?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)