English Explanatory Dictionary

white-haired

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Having white hair; especially, of a person, from old age.

Word forms

white-haired whitehaired

Etymology

From Middle English white-heered, white-harid, white-herede, whyte-harede, white hared, equivalent to white + haired. Compare Old Norse hvít-hárr and hvít-hærðr (“white-haired”).

Synonyms

hoary elder elderly geriatric gerontologic gerontological long in the tooth matured of a certain age old as Methuselah on in years over the hill senior superannuated ivy-covered preserved wintry grizzly silver-haired gray / grey gray-headed / grey-headed grey-haired / gray-haired grisly grizzled mouldy silvery-haired white-haired

Related words

grey-haired grizzled grizzly silver-haired silvery-haired
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