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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a man who is very old [syn: old man, greybeard, graybeard, Methuselah]
2: a familiar term of address for a man [syn: old boy, old man]
3: an informal term for your father
4: aromatic herb of temperate Eurasia and North Africa having a bitter taste used in making the liqueur absinthe [syn: common wormwood, absinthe, old man, lad's love, Artemisia absinthium]
5: (slang) boss

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1673 1. a. husband b. father 2. capitalized one in authority; especially commanding officer 3. boyfriend; especially one with whom a woman cohabits

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Some people refer to their father, husband, or boyfriend as their old man. (INFORMAL) Her old man left her a few millions when he died... N-SING: the/poss N

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

(palaios, "old," "ancient"): A term thrice used by Paul (Ro 6:6; Eph 4:22; Col 3:9) to signify the unrenewed man, the natural man in the corruption of sin, i.e. sinful human nature before conversion and regeneration. It is theologically synonymous with "flesh" (Ro 8:3-9), which stands, not for bodily organism, but, for the whole nature of man (body and soul) turned away from God and devoted to self and earthly things.

The old man is "in the flesh"; the new man "in the Spirit." In the former "the works of the flesh" (Ga 5:19-21) are manifest; in the latter "the fruit of the Spirit" (Ga 5:22,23). One is "corrupt according to the deceitful lusts"; the other "created in righteousness and true holiness" (Eph 4:22-24 the King James Version).

See also MAN, NATURAL; MAN.

Dwight M. Pratt

Moby Thesaurus

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