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say it: EL-dur-lee
elderly is a noun and adjective meaning "people who are old collectively". It is pronounced /ˈɛldɚli/ — EL-dur-lee. It carries 2 recorded senses.
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for elderly come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.