Definitions for old man

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

old` man′*(n.)

  1. one's father.

    Category: Informal

  2. one's husband.

    Category: Informal

  3. one's boyfriend or male lover.

    Category: Common Vocabulary, Informal

  4. (sometimes caps.) a person in authority, as an employer or a commanding officer (prec. by the).

    Category: Informal

* Slang..

Princeton's WordNet

  1. old man, greybeard, graybeard, Methuselah(noun)

    a man who is very old

  2. old boy, old man(noun)

    a familiar term of address for a man

  3. old man(noun)

    an informal term for your father

  4. common wormwood, absinthe, old man, lad's love, Artemisia absinthium(noun)

    aromatic herb of temperate Eurasia and North Africa having a bitter taste used in making the liqueur absinthe

  5. old man(noun)

    (slang) boss

Wiktionary

  1. old man(Noun)

    : an old man.

  2. old man(Noun)

    One's father.

  3. old man(Noun)

    a husband, or significant other

  4. old man(Noun)

    Unit's Commanding Officer.


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