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Definition of Elderly
Elderly

Somewhat old; advanced beyond middle age; bordering on old age; as, elderly people.

Related Definitions:
Advanced, Age, As, Beyond, Bordering, Elderly, Middle, Old, On, People, Somewhat


Elderly Quotations

The University of Nebraska says that elderly people that drink beer or wine at least four times a week have the highest bone density. They need it - they're the ones falling down the most.
Jay Leno

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
Bertrand Russell

It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
Hubert H. Humphrey

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
Arthur C. Clarke

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
Arthur C. Clarke

We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
Barbra Streisand

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.
Lewis Mumford

Some writing and production projects will be a great way to spend my elderly rock years.
Geddy Lee

A lot of kids do look up to us. But there are just as many elderly people to put us down.
Donnie Wahlberg

Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107.
Martha Beck

Elderly Translations

elderly in Dutch is hoogbejaard, bedaagd
elderly in Norwegian is aldrende
elderly in Portuguese is idoso
elderly in Spanish is mayor


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