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GEEZERHOOD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A late time of life
Example:
on the brink of geezerhood
Synonyms:
age; eld; geezerhood; old age; years
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("geezerhood" is a kind of...):
time of life (a period of time during which a person is normally in a particular life state)
Meronyms (parts of "geezerhood"):
mid-sixties; sixties (the time of life between 60 and 70)
mid-seventies; seventies (the time of life between 70 and 80)
eighties; mid-eighties (the time of life between 80 and 90)
mid-nineties; nineties (the time of life between 90 and 100)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "geezerhood"):
dotage; second childhood; senility (mental infirmity as a consequence of old age; sometimes shown by foolish infatuations)
Derivation:
geezer (a man who is (usually) old and/or eccentric)
