WHITE-HAIRED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does white-haired mean? 

• WHITE-HAIRED (adjective)
  The adjective WHITE-HAIRED has 2 senses:

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

2. favorite

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHITE-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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Favorite

Synonyms:

blue-eyed; fair-haired; white-haired

Context example:

the fair-haired boy of the literary set

Similar:

loved (held dear)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

 Context examples 

“Yet they have souls, fair lady, they have souls!” murmured the chaplain, a white-haired man with a weary, patient face.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The local surgeon, an old, white-haired man, had just come down from Mrs. Hilton Cubitt’s room, and he reported that her injuries were serious, but not necessarily fatal.

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

You will find her father a white-haired old man, said my aunt, though a better man in all other respects—a reclaimed man.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)