elderly

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈɛldəli/    美 /ˈɛldɚli/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An elderly person. uncommon
    — He lives next door to an elderly.
  2. Older people as a whole. collective,with-definite-article
    — the elderly
形容词 adj.
  1. old; having lived for relatively many years.
  2. Of an object, being old-fashioned or frail due to aging.
    — The car was parked toward the rear of the shop, an elderly gray-blue Dodge. It looked better than it had in years.

词形变化

more elderly comparative most elderly superlative elderlies plural

词汇关系

近义词
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
反义词
young
上位词
anthropic old
下位词
By degree: suprageriatric By gender: matronly By reference to hair: gray gray-haired grey grey-haired grizzled grizzly hoary silver-haired silvery-haired white-haired By reference to skin: prune-faced shriveled-up wizened wrinkled wrinkled-up wrinkly wrizled
衍生词
elderliness illderly nonelderly unelderly wellderly elderly care

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Middle English eldre
English elder
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-West Germanic *-līk
Old English -līċ
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English elderly
From elder + -ly.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Middle English eldre
English elder
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-West Germanic *-līk
Old English -līċ
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English elderly
From elder + -ly.
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