old person

Questions about old person

What does old person mean?

old person means "an elderly person".

What is another word for old person?

Close synonyms include oldster, senior citizen, golden ager. 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 person a common word?

old person is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.