Meaning

2 senses
  1. (collective, plural, plural only, singular, with definite article)Older people as a whole.

    the elderly

    health insurance and retirement income for the elderly

    people who are old collectively

  2. (countable, plural, singular, uncommon)An elderly person.

    He lives next door to an elderly.

    He lives next door to some elderlies.

Examples

197 sentences
  1. I met an elderly woman.

    Я зустрів одну літню жінку.

    ruЯ встретил одну пожилую женщину.

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  2. You need to respect the elderly.

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  3. I'm already what you call elderly.

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  4. Tom gave his seat to an elderly lady.

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  5. Tom helped the elderly man cross the road.

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Translations

3 languages

Forms

plural: elderlies
Singularelderly
Pluralelderlies

regular

Synonyms

31 synonyms

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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