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graybeard

Or grey·beard

[grey-beerd]

noun

  1. Sometimes Disparaging.,  a man whose beard is gray; old man; sage.

  2. bellarmine.



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Other Word Forms

  • graybearded adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of graybeard1

First recorded in 1570–80; gray 1 + beard
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Example Sentences

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Allen will be the graybeard of a Chargers receivers group that has several promising pass-catchers.

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It’s a conceit that pays off the second a shambolic Michael Keaton makes his entrance as a graybeard puttering about a near-derelict Wayne Manor.

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They might be a reality again as he keeps scoring into his graybeard years.

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Sixteen years into the experiment, Twitter is a graybeard by internet years and by corporate standards.

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After that, he became a Washington “graybeard,” a think-tanker on weapons proliferation to whom the intelligence community would occasionally turn to help figure out what the United States’ enemies were up to.

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