old man

Questions about old man

What does old man mean?

old man means "a man who is very old". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for old man?

Close synonyms include greybeard, graybeard, Methuselah, old boy, common wormwood. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is old man a common word?

old man is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.