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Princeton's WordNet

  1. aged, elderly, older, senioradjective

    advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables)

    "aged members of the society"; "elderly residents could remember the construction of the first skyscraper"; "senior citizen"

  2. elder, older, sr.adjective

    used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son

    "Bill Adams, Sr."

  3. old, olderadjective

    skilled through long experience

    "an old offender"; "the older soldiers"

Wiktionary

  1. olderadjective

    elderly

    The thoughtful lad helped an older lady across the street.

  2. olderadjective

    comparative form of old : more old, elder, senior

    My older brother and I are Catholic twins. He’s older by eleven months, not quite a year older than me.

Wikipedia

  1. Older

    Older is a single released by George Michael in 1997. It was also released as an EP under the name The Older EP. The single's B-side is a cover of Bonnie Raitt's single "I Can't Make You Love Me". The single peaked at number 3 on the UK Singles Chart, peaking behind his previous single "Spinning the Wheel" by just one place.

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  1. older

    Older typically refers to something or someone that is relatively advanced in age compared to others. It can be used to describe individuals who have reached a certain stage in their life, usually beyond middle age. The specific age range may vary depending on context and cultural norms. Additionally, the term can also be used to describe things or ideas that have existed or been used for a longer period of time compared to newer or more recent alternatives.

Wikidata

  1. Older

    Older is the third studio album from George Michael, released in Europe on 13 May 1996 through Virgin Records and one day later in the United States through the then-new DreamWorks Records. Older was the very first album released by DreamWorks Records. It was his first album since 1990's Listen Without Prejudice, Vol. 1 – the five-and-a-half-year gap was due to the controversial legal battle that Michael experienced with his record company. Michael dedicated three years straight in the recording of Older, and the album found him exploring new musical territories in a more serious fashion compared to his previous work. At the time of release, the album was a huge commercial hit, particularly in Europe, but was received in America with a lukewarm critical approval and mediocre sales figures. In the UK, the album was particularly notable for producing six Top Three hit singles in a two-year span, creating a record still unsurpassed. The high sales of the album presaged a re-issue of the album under the name of Older & Upper eighteen months after its original release.

Suggested Resources

  1. Older

    Older vs. Elder -- In this Grammar.com article you will learn the differences between the words Older and Elder.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. OLDER

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Older is ranked #41100 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Older surname appeared 530 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Older.

    88.1% or 467 total occurrences were White.
    5.8% or 31 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    2.2% or 12 total occurrences were Asian.
    1.7% or 9 total occurrences were Black.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'older' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1162

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'older' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1121

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of older in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of older in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of older in a Sentence

  1. Howard Weintraub:

    It was a very well-done analysis of older trials, and there was no ambiguity that there was not a signal of cancer risk.

  2. Shirley MacLaine:

    You know, I think the consciousness of the higher self and the eternal self is determined by, how much fear, you have, or allow yourself to have. And that's what I've been working on. The older I get, the more I realize, that what, it's, Love versus Fear, not Love versus Hate. 1march2017 interview, James Corden TV show USA

  3. Mary Tinetti:

    Serious fall injuries such as hip fractures and head injuries are comparable to strokes in clinical importance for older adults, therefore, it is important to identify ways to prevent series fall injuries, particularly as the population is rapidly aging.

  4. Sydney Harris:

    People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older.

  5. Matt Gaetz:

    I think Madison is the first Zoomer elected to Congress, and I think if a lot of these Boomers and Gen Xers and a few of the older millennials had had a video camera attached to them at all times through their adolescence and in their early 20s we might think differently about them too.

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