senior citizen

Questions about senior citizen

What does senior citizen mean?

senior citizen means "an elderly person".

What is another word for senior citizen?

Close synonyms include oldster, old person, 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 senior citizen a common word?

senior citizen 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.