old-timer en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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One who has been around for a long time or has a great deal of experience. ▸ An elder.
A: Hey, how's it going, old-timer? B: Ha ha, nice try — you're even older than I am! A: It takes one to know one, after all.
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One who has been around for a long time or has a great deal of experience. ▸ A veteran.
Some of the old-timers around here might be able to tell you how it all began.
It’s plain that older Americans have become a more important and reliable part of the audience that goes to movie theatres. Yet a few years ago, the Academy gave up on honouring old-timers in the show – because they wanted kids to be watching?
2016 March 3, David Thomson, “Biggest lesson of the 2016 Oscars? The Academy should be scrapped”, in The Guardian:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| old-timers | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| oldtimer | alternative | lexicographic | |
| old timer | alternative | lexicographic |
Hypernyms
Relateds
old-timer's disease · old timer's disease · old-timey
Synonyms
twirly · geezer · weazen · hoarhead · senior citizen · genarian · grayhead · eld · greyhead · badge-cove · old-timer · oldie · oldster · older adult · antique · old timer · cheeser · geriatric · silver top · oldster · oldtimer · old hand · senior citizen · no spring chicken · elderly · coffin dodger · elder · ager · old · crinkly · warhorse · senior · oldie · mzee · wrinkly
Translations (13)
pl weteran (one who has been around for a long time or has a great deal of experience) · fr vétéran (one who has been around for a long time or has a great deal of experience) · ro vechi locuitor băștinaș (one who has been around for a long time or has a great deal of experience) · pl weteranka (one who has been around for a long time or has a great deal of experience) · ro veteran (one who has been around for a long time or has a great deal of experience) · fa قدیمی (one who has been around for a long time or has a great deal of experience) · de alter Hase (one who has been around for a long time or has a great deal of experience) · pt veterano (one who has been around for a long time or has a great deal of experience) · mi pūtoetoe (one who has been around for a long time or has a great deal of experience) · fi veteraani (one who has been around for a long time or has a great deal of experience) · ru ветера́н (one who has been around for a long time or has a great deal of experience) · cmn 老前輩 /老前辈 (one who has been around for a long time or has a great deal of experience) · ru старожи́л (one who has been around for a long time or has a great deal of experience)