oldster

Other forms of oldster

plural

oldsters·

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 oldster

What does oldster mean?

oldster means "an elderly person".

How many syllables are in oldster?

oldster has 2 syllables: old-ster. The stress falls on "old". In IPA it is /ˈoʊldstɚ/.

What is another word for oldster?

Close synonyms include old person, 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 oldster a common word?

oldster 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.