Thesaurus:old age

Thesaurus:old age

THESAURUS

old age

English

Sense: the latter part of life

Detail: Of a person

Synonyms

• age

• chair days (obsolete)

• codgerhood

• eld (archaic or poetic)

• elderliness

• fogeydom

• geezerdom (US, slang)

• golden years (idiomatic, euphemistic)

• old age

• oldhood

• senescence (biology)

• senectitude

• twilight years (idiomatic)

• sunset years (idiomatic)

• vetustity (rare)

Antonyms

• youth

Hyponyms

• eldership

• seniority

• third age

•   —

• dotage

• second childhood (idiomatic)

• senility

Hypernyms

• adulthood

• oldness    [WS]

Holonyms

• life

Comeronyms

• youth

• midlife

See also

• Thesaurus:elderly
• Thesaurus:old man
• Thesaurus:old woman

Further reading

• “128. age” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “old age” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.