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old man noun

• an elderly male person.
Similar: senior citizen, pensioner, OAP, elder, elderly man, grandfather, patriarch, bodach, greybeard, old codger, old boy, old geezer, wrinkly, gaffer, old bloke, old chap, buffer, josser, old coot, grandsire, ancient, senex,
Opposite: youth, boy, young man,
• another term for southernwood.

grand old man

• a man long and highly respected in a particular sphere.
• "Goldstein of the Village Voice , the grand old man of rock criticism, wrote that style is the key to success for rock bands"


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