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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

grayhead en · NOUN

Etymology

From gray + head.

Meanings

  1. (Canada, US) A person with gray hair; an elderly person.
    • What is most troublesome to me is that our residents — no matter how much we grayheads or graybeards model the approach to history-taking from parents — learn that the checklist on the computer screen is the thing to look at, and not the living person describing their child and her problems. 2009 March 11, “Doctor-Patient-Computer Relationships”, in New York Times:

Forms

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greyhead alternative lexicographic
grayheads Number=Plur lexicographic

Synonyms

hoarhead · greybeard