oldster

old·ster  (ldstr)

n. Informal

An elderly person.

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oldster [ˈəʊldstə]

n

1. Informal an older person

2. (Military) Brit Navy a person who has been a midshipman for four years

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

oldster - an elderly person                     golden ager, old person, senior citizen adult, grownup - a fully developed person from maturity onward ancient, antediluvian - a very old person centenarian - someone who is at least 100 years old curmudgeon - a crusty irascible cantankerous old person full of stubborn ideas dodderer - one who dodders from old age and weakness dodo, fogey, fogy, fossil - someone whose style is out of fashion dotard - an oldster in his dotage; someone whose age has impaired his intellect back-number, has-been - someone who is no longer popular nonagenarian - someone whose age is in the nineties octogenarian - someone whose age is in the eighties old boy - a vivacious elderly man graybeard, greybeard, old man, Methuselah - a man who is very old old woman - a woman who is old septuagenarian - someone whose age is in the seventies sexagenarian - someone whose age is in the sixties

Translations

oldster [ˈəʊldstəʳ] N (US) → viejo/a m/f, anciano/a m/f

oldster

n (US inf) → älterer Mann; some of us oldsters → einige von uns Alten