GRAYBEARD Synonyms

• a serviceman who has seen considerable active service

• a person who has served in the armed forces

• an experienced person who has been through many battles; someone who has given long service

• rendered competent through trial and experience

• a person who is older than you are

• any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical Northern Hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit

• any of various church officers

• used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son

• title for the heads of the Eastern Orthodox Churches (in Istanbul and Alexandria and Moscow and Jerusalem)

• the male head of family or tribe

• any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race

• a man who is older and higher in rank than yourself

• older; higher in rank; longer in length of tenure or service

• an undergraduate student during the year preceding graduation

• a person who is older than you are

• used of the fourth and final year in United States high school or college

• advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables)

• a man who is very old

• a stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th century)

• (Old Testament) a patriarch (grandfather of Noah) who is said to have lived 969 years

• a man who is very old

• a man who is very old

• a familiar term of address for a man

• an informal term for your father

• aromatic herb of temperate Eurasia and North Africa having a bitter taste used in making the liqueur absinthe

• (slang) boss