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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

yeared en · ADJ

Etymology

From year + -ed.

Meanings

  1. (in-compounds, not-comparable) Of a specified number of years.
  2. (not-comparable, poetic) That has lasted many years; old.
    • Ironically, too, the wine was a yeared Bollinger of almost carnal subtlety and while Sutcliffe's stomach quailed his palate hungered for the treat. 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 701: