a ripe old age
the condition of being very old; used especially to talk about someone who has a long healthy life:
I'm sure he'll live to a ripe old age.
My grandmother died at the ripe old age of 92.
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The elderly
- aged
- ageism
- agism
- centenarian
- codger
- crock
- geriatric
- geriatrics
- gerontology
- old
- old age
- old age pensioner
- old boy
- old girl
- senile
- senior citizen
- septuagenarian
- seventies
- sexagenarian
- the gray dollar
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