Synonyms for older
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1. aged, elderly, older, senioradjective

   advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables)

   "aged members of the society"; "elderly residents could remember the construction of the first skyscraper"; "senior citizen"

   Synonyms:
   aged, senior(a), old, cured, sr., elderly, elder, ripened, senior, aged(a), of age(p), fourth-year

   Antonyms:
   immature, young, junior, inexperienced, inexperient

2. elder, older, sr.adjective

   used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son

   "Bill Adams, Sr."

   Synonyms:
   senior, aged, old, sr., elder, elderly

   Antonyms:
   inexperienced, inexperient, young, immature, junior

3. old, olderadjective

   skilled through long experience

   "an old offender"; "the older soldiers"

   Synonyms:
   quondam(a), elder, previous(a), senior, old, sr., old(a), former(a), one-time(a), honest-to-god, erstwhile(a), honest-to-goodness, onetime(a), aged, sure-enough(a), sometime(a), elderly

   Antonyms:
   immature, young, inexperienced, inexperient, junior

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1. olderadjective

   Synonyms:
   senior, elder

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1. List of paraphrases for "older":

   elderly, oldest, age, old, ageing, aged, seniors, elder, senior, more, old-age, previous, elders

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1. Ngor Mayol:

   I missed my childhood, when you start your school at the older age, it's hard.

2. Catherine Salmon:

   There's a principle that each child is trying to be different from the one immediately older, so if you had three middles, the first and third would likely be a bit more similar to each other than to the very middle child.

3. Barbara Streisand:

   They have different personalities, i’m waiting for them to get older so I can see if they have her [Samantha’s] brown eyes and seriousness.

4. John Chew:

   It will refresh the tournament playing population, it will bring in new players who would otherwise not want to play the game because some of their favorite everyday words were not acceptable until this year, but we'll end up losing some older players who can't get over the idea that a word coined by a 14-year-old is now used in Scrabble.

5. Emily Webb:

   Older museum collections are a tremendous resource for bioarchaeologists and archaeological scientists, this study is an excellent example of how modern bioarchaeological and scientific methods can be applied to these invaluable collections to shed important new light on the past.