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Old man

noun

A man who is very old. Synonyms: graybeard, greybeard, Methuselah.

A familiar term of address for a man. Synonym: old boy.

An informal term for your father.

Aromatic herb of temperate Eurasia and North Africa having a bitter taste used in making the liqueur absinthe. Synonyms: absinthe, Artemisia absinthium, common wormwood, lad's love.

(slang) boss.

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"Old man" Quotes from Famous Books

... Free State was ready to mobilise, the President secured another delay of three days in order that diplomacy might have one more chance. His genius had not enabled him to realise the dream of his life without a recourse to war, and when the ultimatum was delivered into the hands of the British the old man wept. ...

— With the Boer Forces • Howard C. Hillegas

... his brethren to "put on the whole armour of God," including "the breastplate of righteousness, the shield of faith, the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit." [149:5] As the indefatigable old man, with the soldier who had charge of him, passed from house to house inviting attendance on his services, the very appearance of such "yoke-fellows" [149:6] must have created some interest; and, when the congregation ...

— The Ancient Church - Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution • W.D. [William Dool] Killen

... impressed. The mothers wept: the priest was such a good, worthy old man, whom they had known all their lives; and they liked hearing him say all those beautiful things: that reference to their own childhood and to their youngsters, whom they now saw sitting there so good ...

— The Path of Life • Stijn Streuvels

... of the Tribunal—Of the Submission of Crainquebille to the Laws of the Republic—Of his Attitude before the Public Opinion, and so on to the chapter of the Last Consequences. We see, created for us in his outward form and innermost perplexity, the old man degraded from his high estate of a law-abiding street-hawker and driven to insult, really this time, the majesty of the social order in the person of another police- constable. It is not an act of ...

— Notes on Life and Letters • Joseph Conrad

... him crowned, despite the wishes of his family and the advice of the pope. Even so unassertive a king as Louis VII was conscious of the security and strength which had come to the Capetian house with the progress of the last hundred years. Now he was growing ill and felt himself an old man, though he was not yet quite sixty, and he determined to make the succession secure before it should be too late. This decision was announced to a great council of the realm at the end of April, ...

— The History of England From the Norman Conquest - to the Death of John (1066-1216) • George Burton Adams

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