| 单词 | elderly |
| 释义 | elderly (once / 470 pages) adjn Someone who's elderly is very old. Your elderly neighbor might need help shoveling snow from her sidewalk and going grocery shopping each week. When you talk about an elderly person, you might call him a "senior citizen" or an "older gentleman." We tend to think of people as elderly when they're quite aged and have started to become physically frail. You can also use the adjective for animals or even inanimate objects that are getting old: "That elderly oak tree is going to have to come down." The Old English root ealdorlic means "princely" or "excellent." WORD FAMILYelderly: elderlies USAGE EXAMPLESThe money sent back usually gets reinvested locally, he said, "in better schooling for kids, better care for the elderly, and better housing." Reuters(Jan 02, 2017) An elderly relative with Alzheimer’s recently told me that God talks to her. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) Scientists associated tau buildup with Alzheimer’s, but that disease ravaged the elderly. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) 1adj advanced in years elderly residents could remember the construction of the first skyscraper Syn aged, older, senior old (used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age 2n people who are old collectively Syn|Ant|Hyper aged young, youth young people collectively age bracket, age group, cohort a group of people having approximately the same age |
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