GREY-HEADED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grey-headed mean? 

• GREY-HEADED (adjective)
  The adjective GREY-HEADED has 1 sense:

1. showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair

  Familiarity information: GREY-HEADED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GREY-HEADED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair

Synonyms:

gray; gray-haired; gray-headed; grey; grey-haired; grey-headed; grizzly; hoar; hoary; white-haired

Context example:

nodded his hoary head

Similar:

old ((used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age)

 Context examples 

There he always appeared, however, grey-headed, laughing, and happy; and he never had anything more to tell of the man who could frighten my aunt.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The trim Inspector Martin, the old, grey-headed country doctor, myself, and a stolid village policeman made up the rest of that strange company.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She made such a report of me to her father, that Mr. Oliver himself accompanied her next evening—a tall, massive-featured, middle-aged, and grey-headed man, at whose side his lovely daughter looked like a bright flower near a hoary turret.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Mr. Dick, as I have already said, was grey-headed, and florid: I should have said all about him, in saying so, had not his head been curiously bowed—not by age; it reminded me of one of Mr. Creakle's boys' heads after a beating—and his grey eyes prominent and large, with a strange kind of watery brightness in them that made me, in combination with his vacant manner, his submission to my aunt, and his childish delight when she praised him, suspect him of being a little mad; though, if he were mad, how he came to be there puzzled me extremely.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)