adj
Meaning 1
Having grey hair.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: grizzled, grizzly, greyish, hoary
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
grey-haired
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adj
Meaning 2
Old, wise, experienced.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, figuratively, not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: hoary, senior, venerable, elder, elderly, geriatric, gerontologic, gerontological, long in the tooth, matured, of a certain age, old as Methuselah, on in years, over the hill, superannuated, ivy-covered, preserved, wintry, ancient, aged, age-old, antediluvian, auld, cobwebbed, cobwebby, decrepit, eld, eldern, gamol, gray, moss-grown, old, old as the hills, old as the Pyramids, olden, older than dirt, older than the hills, older than the Pyramids, frood, quick-witted, sagacious, astute, clairvoyant, deep, grounded, judicious, oracular, perspicacious, politic, profound, prudent, reasonable, sage, sapient, sensible, wise, witful
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 3
showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair-Coleridge
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- whose beard with age is hoar
- nodded his hoary head
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: grey, gray, gray-haired, grey-headed, gray-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From grey + haired.
Across languages
Translations
43 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: أَشْيَب (ʔašyab) — having grey hair
- Armenian: ալեզարդ (alezard) — having grey hair
- Azerbaijani: çalbaş — having grey hair
- Bulgarian: посивял (posivjal) — having grey hair
- Crimean Tatar: çalbaş — having grey hair
- Czech: šedivý — having grey hair
- Danish: gråhåret — having grey hair
- Dutch: grijsharig — having grey hair
- Finnish: harmaatukkainen — having grey hair
- Finnish: harmaahapsinen — having grey hair
- French: chenu — having grey hair
- Hungarian: ősz — having grey hair
- Hungarian: őszhajú — having grey hair
- Icelandic: gráhærður — having grey hair
- Irish: liath — having grey hair
- Irish: ceannliath — having grey hair
- Italian: brizzolato — having grey hair
- Latin: cānus — having grey hair
- Lithuanian: žilas — having grey hair
- Macedonian: си́вокос (sívokos) — having grey hair
- Malay: beruban — having grey hair
- Māori: hinahina — having grey hair
- Māori: tārekoreko — having grey hair
- Norwegian Bokmål: gråhåret — having grey hair
- Norwegian Bokmål: gråhåra — having grey hair
- Norwegian Nynorsk: gråhåra — having grey hair
- Norwegian Nynorsk: gråhærd — having grey hair
- Plautdietsch: greiwhoarich — having grey hair
- Polish: siwowłosy — having grey hair
- Portuguese: grisalho — having grey hair
- Russian: седо́й (sedój) — having grey hair
- Russian: седовла́сый (sedovlásyj) — having grey hair
- Russian: седоволо́сый (sedovolósyj) — having grey hair
- Serbo-Croatian: sed — having grey hair
- Serbo-Croatian: sedokos — having grey hair
- Southern Altai: бос баш (bos baš) — having grey hair
- Spanish: canoso — having grey hair
- Swedish: gråhårig — having grey hair
- Tausug: ubanan — having grey hair
- Ukrainian: си́вий (sývyj) — having grey hair
- Ukrainian: сивоволо́сий (syvovolósyj) — having grey hair
- Welsh: penllwyd — having grey hair
- Yup'ik: qaingqellria — having grey hair