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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ELD'ERLY, a. Somewhat old; advanced beyond middle age; bordering on old age; as elderly people

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables); "aged members of the society"; "elderly residents could remember the construction of the first skyscraper"; "senior citizen" [syn: aged, elderly, older, senior] n
1: people who are old collectively; "special arrangements were available for the aged" [syn: aged, elderly] [ant: young, youth]

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective Date: 1611 1. a. rather old; especially being past middle age b. old-fashioned 2. of, relating to, or characteristic of later life or elderly persons • elderliness noun II. noun (plural -ly or -lies) Date: 1865 an elderly person

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 somewhat old. 2 (of a person) past middle age. Derivatives: elderliness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Elderly Eld"er*ly, a. Somewhat old; advanced beyond middle age; bordering on old age; as, elderly people.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. You use elderly as a polite way of saying that someone is old. ...an elderly couple... Many of those most affected are elderly. ADJ [politeness] • The elderly are people who are old. The elderly are a formidable force in any election. N-PLURAL: the N

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Somewhat old, somewhat advanced in life.

Moby Thesaurus

advanced, advanced in life, advanced in years, age-old, aged, ageing, ageless, aging, along in years, ancient, anile, antique, auld, dateless, declining, decrepit, gray, gray with age, gray-haired, gray-headed, grey, grown old, hoar, hoary, immemorial, of old, of yore, old, old as Methuselah, old as history, old as time, old-fogyish, old-time, olden, over the hill, patriarchal, pensioners, senectuous, senescent, senile, superannuated, timeless, venerable, white, white with age, white-bearded, white-crowned, white-haired, wrinkled, wrinkly, years old