Thesaurus:old age

Thesaurus

old age

English

Noun

Sense: the latter part of life

Detail: Of a person

Synonyms

• age    [⇒ thesaurus]
• 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    [⇒ thesaurus]

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.