SENIOR CITIZEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does senior citizen mean? 

• SENIOR CITIZEN (noun)
  The noun SENIOR CITIZEN has 1 sense:

1. an elderly person

  Familiarity information: SENIOR CITIZEN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SENIOR CITIZEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An elderly person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

golden ager; old person; oldster; senior citizen

Hypernyms ("senior citizen" is a kind of...):

adult; grownup (a fully developed person from maturity onward)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "senior citizen"):

ancient; antediluvian (a very old person)

centenarian (someone who is at least 100 years old)

curmudgeon (a crusty irascible cantankerous old person full of stubborn ideas)

dodderer (one who dodders from old age and weakness)

dodo; fogey; fogy; fossil (someone whose style is out of fashion)

dotard (an oldster in his dotage; someone whose age has impaired his intellect)

back-number; has-been (someone who is no longer popular)

nonagenarian (someone whose age is in the nineties)

octogenarian (someone whose age is in the eighties)

old boy (a vivacious elderly man)

graybeard; greybeard; Methuselah; old man (a man who is very old)

old woman (a woman who is old)

septuagenarian (someone whose age is in the seventies)

sexagenarian (someone whose age is in the sixties)