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Noun methuselah has 2 senses
- methuselah(n = noun.person) Array - (Old Testament) a patriarch (grandfather of Noah) who is said to have lived 969 years; Array is a kind of patriarch
- methuselah(n = noun.person) graybeard, greybeard, old man - a man who is very old; Array has particulars: codger, old codger, antique, gaffer, old-timer, old geezer, oldtimer, patriarch
is a kind of adult male, man, golden ager, old person, oldster, senior citizen
OXFORD DICTIONARY
methuselah, n.
1 a very old person or thing.
2 (methuselah) a wine bottle of about eight times the standard size.
1 a very old person or thing.
2 (methuselah) a wine bottle of about eight times the standard size.
Etymology
ME: the name of a patriarch said to have lived 969 years (Gen. 5:27)
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methuselah
Father Time, Nestor, Old Paar, antediluvian, antique, back number, centenarian, conservative, dad, dodo, dotard, elder, fogy, fossil, fud, fuddy-duddy, gaffer, geezer, golden-ager, gramps, grandfather, grandsire, granny, graybeard, has-been, longhair, matriarch, mid-Victorian, mossback, nonagenarian, octogenarian, old believer, old chap, old codger, old crock, old dodo, old dog, old duffer, old fogy, old geezer, old gent, old gentleman, old liner, old man, old party, old poop, old woman, old-timer, older, oldster, pantaloon, patriarch, pop, pops, presbyter, reactionary, regular old fogy, relic, senior citizen, septuagenarian, sexagenarian, square, starets, the quiet-voiced elders, traditionalist, venerable sir, veteranROGET THESAURUS
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Veteran
N veteran, old man, seer, patriarch, graybeard, grandfather, grandsire, grandam, gaffer, gammer, crone, pantaloon, sexagenarian, octogenarian, nonagenarian, centenarian, old stager, dotard, preadamite, Methuselah, Nestor, old Parr, elders, forefathers, superfluous lags the veteran on the stage.
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