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oldhood

noun

Etymology

From old + -hood. Compare Old English ealdhād (“eld, old age”).

  1. inherited from *h₂el-✻
  2. inherited from *aldaz✻ — “grown-up”
  3. inherited from *ald✻
  4. inherited from ald
  5. inherited from old
  6. suffixed as oldhood — “old + hood”

Definitions

  1. The state or condition of being old

    The state or condition of being old; the stage of life where one is advanced in age; old age

    • So just in case you might be curious, in case you might want to know, I shall try to put down whatever I remember of my childhood and of my life in general... my remembrances of childhood, adulthood, and oldhood.
    • The property of couple having no child is also inherited by the husband's brother's sons who take responsibility of oldhood and performing death rituals, family ceremonies.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for oldhood. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA