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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a man who is very old [syn: old man, greybeard, graybeard, Methuselah]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1565 an old man

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bellarmine Bel"lar*mine, n. A stoneware jug of a pattern originated in the neighborhood of Cologne, Germany, in the 16th century. It has a bearded face or mask supposed to represent Cardinal Bellarmine, a leader in the Roman Catholic Counter Reformation, following the Reformation; -- called also graybeard, longbeard.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Graybeard Gray"beard`, n. An old man. --Shak.

Moby Thesaurus

Father Time, Methuselah, Nestor, Old Paar, centenarian, dotard, elder, gaffer, geezer, golden-ager, gramps, grandfather, grandsire, gray-headed person, grayhair, grisard, nonagenarian, octogenarian, old chap, old codger, old dog, old duffer, old geezer, old gent, old gentleman, old man, old party, old-timer, older, oldster, pantaloon, patriarch, presbyter, senior citizen, septuagenarian, sexagenarian, the quiet-voiced elders, venerable sir, veteran