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- DictionaryEld·er·ly/ˈeldərlē/
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- 1. (of a person) old or aging: "she was elderly and silver-haired"
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Definition of elderly adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of older people or… 2. Of a person or animal: having lived for a relatively long… 3. Of a thing: having existed for a relatively long time; old… Noun. 1. With the and plural agreement. People at an advanced stage… 2. colloquial. A person at an advanced stage of life; an older…
B1. a more polite word for ' old ', used to describe people: an elderly man. Children should show respect for the elderly. (Definition of elderly from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
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Age 65 is one year that sticks out in the minds of many, as it’s the age most associated with retirement in America. You become eligible for Medicareat age 65. For many years, one also became eligible for full Social Security benefits at age 65, though that has changed in recent years. Many 65-year-olds today are in terrific shape, are still workin...
Life expectancy in the U.S. is around 78.7 years. Could you define “elderly” as anyone who surpasses the life expectancy for their respective gender, race and location? Perhaps. Although defining “elderly” in such a way really moves the age at which someone could fit the definition over time. For instance, the life expectancy in the U.S. in 1900 wa...
Maybe elderly isn’t defined by the numbers of years lived, but by the number of years one has remaining. That’s the approach taken by researchers at Stanford University, who defined “elderly”as someone with at least a 4% chance of dying within a year. For men, that equates to 76 years old and for women, 80 years old would be statistically “elderly....
A recent drop in life expectancy due to COVID-19 notwithstanding, humans continue to push the limits of how long we may live. Some recent researcheven suggests we have the genetic makeup to live as long as 150 years. So what can we conclude? Age is just a number in the same way that “elderly” is just a word.
Britannica Dictionary definition of ELDERLY. [more elderly; most elderly] : old or rather old : past middle age. The program is intended to provide medical care for elderly people. an elderly couple.
Definition of elderly – Learner’s Dictionary. elderly. adjective. uk / ˈeld ə li / us. B1. a more polite word for ' old ', used to describe people: an elderly man. Children should show respect for the elderly. Want to learn more? Improve your vocabulary with English Vocabulary in Use from Cambridge.
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English el‧der‧ly /ˈeldəli $ ˈeldərli/ S3 W2 adjective 1 used as a polite way of saying that someone is old or becoming old a well-dressed elderly woman see thesaurus at old 2 → the elderly Examples from the Corpus elderly • Nor was he really all that elderly.
