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Old man   /oʊld mæn/   Listen
Old man

noun
1.
A man who is very old.  Synonyms: graybeard, greybeard, Methuselah.
2.
A familiar term of address for a man.  Synonym: old boy.
3.
An informal term for your father.
4.
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.
5.
(slang) boss.



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"Old man" Quotes from Famous Books



... sat on the bank of our Little Creek, took off his hat and shook back his hair as if the wind felt good on his forehead. I fished Dick Oglesby from the ammunition in my apron pocket, and held him toward the cross old man, and he wasn't cross at all. It's funny how you come to get such ...
— Laddie • Gene Stratton Porter
... queer old man; a very medley of contradictions; shrewd and simple; credulous and penetrating; a master penman of the school of Swift and Cobbett; even in his odd picturesque personality whimsically attractive; a man to be reckoned with where he ...
— Marse Henry, Complete - An Autobiography • Henry Watterson
... reiterated in a conciliatory manner. Then his straining, chafing pride, his assaulted self-esteem, overflowed a little his caution. "And you know it," he declared in a loud, ugly voice; "you know the size of every pocketbook in Greenstream; I'll bet, by God, you and old man Hollidew know personal every copper Indian on the pennies ...
— Mountain Blood - A Novel • Joseph Hergesheimer
... wolves which are devouring our substance!' he replied: 'Ha! Are you, or are you not, Orthodox Christians? See that I assign you not to condign perdition!' Yes, angry, in very truth he was. Nay, he even spat in the people's faces. Yet in reality he was a kindly old man, for his eyes kept shedding tears equally ...
— Through Russia • Maxim Gorky
... a kind old man—he is a good man," Eleanor said, picking for words; "I like him. He is not a ...
— The Old Helmet, Volume I • Susan Warner


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