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Old Man en · PROPN

Meanings

1. A title given to the personification of a force of nature or abstract concept, such as Old Man Winter or Old Man River.
   • Big-Horn hadn't been told whom he was to fight, and when he found that it was Old Man Coyote, he was disappointed. 2019, Thornton Burgess, Old Mother West Wind Collection, page 471:
   • But it was really Old Man Concentration and his partner, Co-operation, that put across the big clean-up. 1919, The American Produce Review, volume 47, page 773:
2. A creator god in some Native American mythologies.
   • The Wiyot say that Condor recreated mankind after Old Man wiped out humanity with a flood. 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 249:
3. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Ellipsis of Old Man of Coniston.
   alt of Old Man of Coniston

Coordinates

Our Father

Deriveds

Old Man of Coniston

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