Older is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for OLDER in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• OLD, living for a long time
• having lived for a long time; no longer young
• made or built long ago
• possessed or used for a long time
• boring or tiresome, especially as a result of repetition or overfamiliarity
• having the characteristics or showing the signs of age
• belonging to the past; former
• used to refer to a thing which has been replaced by something similar
• dating from far back; long-established or known
• denoting someone who formerly attended a specified school
• (of a form of a language) as used in former or earliest times.
• of a specified age
• a person or animal of the age specified
• used to express affection, familiarity, or contempt
• advanced in years; (`aged\' is pronounced as two syllables)
• used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son
• skilled through long experience
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• living or existing for a relatively long time
• having lived or existed longer

Words related to OLDER

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Words that contain OLDER

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How to use OLDER in a sentence

• He had turned at once to the older women and was continuing the conversation.
• CHAPTER 1 THE NEUTRALITY OF BELGIUM AND LUXEMBURG I The kingdom of Belgium is a comparatively new creation, but the idea of a Belgian nation is older than the kingdom.
• And I began to sigh for a prospect of older countries and institutions.
• The edifice itself dates from a much older period than the charitable institution of which it is now the home.
• When you are older, you will come to understand how these chance meetings may lead to the most valuable friendships, or, on the contrary, to the most mortifying embarrassments.
• As he grew older Louis became still more attached to his favourite.
• Father Talmage and the older brothers accompanied John.
• The world may altogether be set down as older and wiser than any single person in it.
• But it did not at first supersede older towns inasmuch as the loss of political independence did not always involve the destruction of monasteries.
• On the other hand, as I grow older, the idea seems to me to be opposed to Scripture, to the analogies of nature and history, to reason, and to the universal moral sense.
• Such we consider a decided objection, and hence arose, probably, the older plans of by-gone years, of making the main hall reach back to the kitchen itself.
• As I grew older, I learned to play cards, and I gambled for larger sums.
• His older books come pouring from the press, and are met with the cordial welcome of new ones.
• As he grew older he devoted himself more entirely to architecture and literature.
• The older members of the family received their education at the parish school of Old Monkland, under the late Mr.
• The word-forms are probably far older than those used in the spoken language of the time.
• He was some years older, but his delicate constitution and studious mind withdrew him from the others, and made him the companion of Ella and myself.
• If I were a much older man, Holmesy, with much more experience in the Army, I reckon I might be able to give him some very sound advice.
• There was something in the fairer one that reminded him forcibly of his sister, but she was much older and graver than he imagined his sister to be.
• The picture in Ramusio, taken as a whole, is so much more brilliant, interesting, and complete than in the older texts, that I thought of substituting it entirely for the other.
• She is so much prettier and older than I am, and takes better care of her clothes.
• He was four years older than his friend Pliny, and, at eighteen, might properly be allowed by his friends to be of their party.
• Sally had made her own profit out of the little store, and the tent colony had yielded dividends sufficient to give each of the older girls a golden nest egg.
• As you grew older the children dragged you among them to play.
• As Tom grew older, he became very amusing and full of tricks, so that his mother was afraid to let him out of her sight.
• Ghosts might do well enough for the old days, but the world has grown older and wiser.
• When the child became older, and her sorrows were heavier, and, perhaps, more real, her well-nurtured mind began to rise to a higher source for comfort.
• Through it pass the sympathy and the help of the earnest workers in the older churches to the earnest workers in our mission churches and schools.
• He examined with eagerness the remains of the mediaeval city, but appeared quite indifferent to that older Rome which speaks to the classical student.
• They were of her own age or two or four years older or a year younger.
• Carl Beck had lost none of his attractiveness as he grew older.

Similar words containing OLD without suffix er

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