Thesaurus:old woman

Thesaurus

old woman

English

Noun

Sense: old woman; an elderly female

Synonyms

Note: Many appear to be archaic to some degree

• old woman
• babushka
• bag
• bat
• beldame
• biddy
• bluehair
• bubbe (chiefly in Jewish contexts)
• carline
• carlin (chiefly Scotland)
• crone
• gammer
• geezer (rare)
• gogo
• grandam
• granny
• grimalkin
• hag
• maum
• old lady
• old maid
• prune (slang)
• spinster
• tabby (first used in the late 1700s)
• trot
• trout
• witch

Antonyms

• girl    [⇒ thesaurus]
• old man    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hyponyms

• grandmother    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hypernyms

• old person    [⇒ thesaurus]
• woman    [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

• Thesaurus:elderly
• Thesaurus:wife

Further reading

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