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grand old man en · NOUN

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1. A male leading light; a man who is the most senior exponent of a particular field.
   • Cervantes's Quixote made him the grand old man of belles-lettres.
   • We were fortunate to be accompanied by another member of Terramar, Volkmar Vareschi, a German-born Venezuelan now in his 80s who is a superb artist and the country's grand old man of tropical ecology. 1989 May, Uwe George, “Venezuela's Islands in Time”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 545:
   • Lope K. Santos, the "grand old man" of Tagalog letters, had long ago deplored the mechanical goodyism of the reading material […] 1974, Epifanio San Juan, Introduction to Modern Pilipino Literature, page 94:

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