Synonyms:
aged, elderly, older, senior
Meaning: advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables); "aged members of the society"; "elderly residents could remember the construction of the first skyscraper"; "senior citizen"
Synonyms:
elder, older, sr.
Meaning: used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son; "Bill Adams, Sr."
Synonyms:
old, older
Meaning: skilled through long experience; "an old offender"; "the older soldiers"
Usage examples
Love is older than I am, and wiser."
His uncle, he thought, looked older.
One of his older companions shouted:
She was his by an older and more ardent bond.
The two children's faces, and they get older.
I believe, too, that she is older than he is.
The girl's older sister came in and found them.
But he was less perspicacious than the older man.
He has a brother only a little older, who is a bootblack.
He was five years older than Levin, and had long been married.