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old person

n. an elderly person [syn: oldster, senior citizen, golden ager]

Usage examples of "old person".

Examples: mow the neighbor's lawn when they are on vacation or have a death in the family, help a friend move, offer your friendship to a new person in school or your community, offer to baby sit for a family who can't afford a sitter, take an old person to the grocery store each week or to his/her doctor, give some flowers to someone, etc.

I had never in any way associated any suspicion with him, for he seemed a rather harmless and decrepit old person, but I admit to a certain vague uneasiness during the past week.

I asked him, then, if this old person had made all things, why did not all things worship him?

Once he was no longer useful to the community, it was customary for an old person to voluntarily take himself away somewhere and starve himself to death.

This personal metamorphosis can be distressing for those who knew the 'old person' and can be the cause of sorrow for those undertaking such a path.

It struck me, however, as being the one which was most likely to interest that exceedingly unpleasant old person.