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oldster

noun

Etymology

From old + -ster, modelled after youngster. Attested from early 19th c.

  1. inherited from *h₂el-✻
  2. inherited from *aldaz✻ — “grown-up”
  3. inherited from *ald✻
  4. inherited from ald
  5. inherited from old
  6. formed as oldster — “old + -ster”

Definitions

  1. Someone who is old.

    • The oldsters start squabbling about whose memory is better. “It was cold that day,” one says about some faraway memory. “What are you talking about? It was May, late May,” says another.

  2. A midshipman of four years' standing

    A midshipman of four years' standing; a master's mate.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for oldster. 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