OLD PERSON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does old person mean? 

• OLD PERSON (noun)
  The noun OLD PERSON has 1 sense:

1. an elderly person

  Familiarity information: OLD PERSON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OLD PERSON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An elderly person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

golden ager; old person; oldster; senior citizen

Hypernyms ("old person" is a kind of...):

adult; grownup (a fully developed person from maturity onward)

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

ancient; antediluvian (a very old person)

centenarian (someone who is at least 100 years old)

curmudgeon (a crusty irascible cantankerous old person full of stubborn ideas)

dodderer (one who dodders from old age and weakness)

dodo; fogey; fogy; fossil (someone whose style is out of fashion)

dotard (an oldster in his dotage; someone whose age has impaired his intellect)

back-number; has-been (someone who is no longer popular)

nonagenarian (someone whose age is in the nineties)

octogenarian (someone whose age is in the eighties)

old boy (a vivacious elderly man)

graybeard; greybeard; Methuselah; old man (a man who is very old)

old woman (a woman who is old)

septuagenarian (someone whose age is in the seventies)

sexagenarian (someone whose age is in the sixties)

 Context examples 

It struck me, however, as being the one which was most likely to interest that exceedingly unpleasant old person.

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

He appeared surprised at this—I see him stop and look at me now—and after considering for a few moments, said he wanted to call on an old person who lived not far off, and that the best way would be for me to buy some bread, or whatever I liked best that was wholesome, and make my breakfast at her house, where we could get some milk.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)