older

Other forms of older

comparative

olderrer·

superlative

olderrest·

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.

Questions about older

What does older mean?

older means "advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in older?

older has 2 syllables: ol-der. The stress falls on "ol". In IPA it is /ˈoʊldɚ/.

What is another word for older?

Close synonyms include aged, elderly, senior, elder, sr.. 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 older a common word?

older 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.