older person
Meaning
An older person is an adult of advanced age, often retired or over 65. It is a respectful, relative term that avoids naming a strict age limit.
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Examples
The less respect an older person deserves the more certain he is to demand it from anyone younger.
The young person isn't certain that love can be real; the middle-aged man is only discovering that it is; and the older person seems so sure of it. I was interested in the way that many of us go through the whole of our lives staying with someone just out of complacency, because leaving isn't easy.
I always thought that I might retire from any form of sexuality by the age of 40 and just become a dignified older person.
I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.
Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.
Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who wanders past.