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OLD MAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A familiar term of address for a man
Synonyms:
old boy; old man
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("old man" is a kind of...):
adult male; man (an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman))
Sense 2
Meaning:
An informal term for your father
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("old man" is a kind of...):
dysphemism (an offensive or disparaging expression that is substituted for an inoffensive one)
begetter; father; male parent (a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father))
Sense 3
Meaning:
A man who is very old
Synonyms:
graybeard; greybeard; Methuselah; old man
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("old man" is a kind of...):
adult male; man (an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman))
golden ager; old person; oldster; senior citizen (an elderly person)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "old man"):
codger; old codger (used affectionately to refer to an eccentric but amusing old man)
antique; gaffer; old-timer; old geezer; oldtimer (an elderly man)
patriarch (a man who is older and higher in rank than yourself)
Sense 4
Meaning:
(slang) boss
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("old man" is a kind of...):
boss; hirer (a person responsible for hiring workers)
Domain region:
America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)
Domain usage:
argot; cant; jargon; lingo; patois; slang; vernacular (a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves))
Sense 5
Meaning:
Aromatic herb of temperate Eurasia and North Africa having a bitter taste used in making the liqueur absinthe
Synonyms:
absinthe; Artemisia absinthium; common wormwood; lad's love; old man
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("old man" is a kind of...):
wormwood (any of several low composite herbs of the genera Artemisia or Seriphidium)
Holonyms ("old man" is a member of...):
genus Artemisia (usually aromatic shrubs or herbs of north temperate regions and South Africa and western South America: wormwood; sagebrush; mugwort; tarragon)
Holonyms ("old man" is a substance of...):
absinth; absinthe (strong green liqueur flavored with wormwood and anise)
Context examples:
The Superintendent of Schools, good old man, stopped Martin on the street and remembered him, recalling seances in his office when Martin was expelled from school for fighting.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I fancy the boy, who was born in Italy, is not very strong, and the old man is afraid of losing him, which makes him so careful.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
He was an old man, my servant said, and looked like a farmer.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Summerlee was still so weak that it was an effort for him to stand; but the old man was full of a sort of surly courage which would never admit defeat.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The old man poured a glass of neat gin down his shrivelled throat, and the effect upon him was extraordinary.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Emerald City was built a great many years ago, for I was a young man when the balloon brought me here, and I am a very old man now.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
But I’m at the end of my patience, and when it comes to knocking my old man about—
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“That's fair enow,” said the old man Morgan.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
"I'm hitting the long trail, old man, where you cannot follow. Now give me a growl—the last, good, good-bye growl."
(White Fang, by Jack London)
You had no loss, I assure you; it is the horridest nonsense you can imagine; there is nothing in the world in it but an old man's playing at see-saw and learning Latin; upon my soul there is not.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
