Methuselah

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: Me=thu=se=lah

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Methuselah, n.
1 a very old person or thing.
2 (methuselah) a wine bottle of about eight times the standard size.

Etymology

ME: the name of a patriarch said to have lived 969 years (Gen. 5:27)

THESAURUS

Methuselah

Father Time, Nestor, Old Paar, antediluvian, antique, back number, centenarian, conservative, dad, dodo, dotard, elder, fogy, fossil, fud, fuddy-duddy, gaffer, geezer, golden-ager, gramps, grandfather, grandsire, granny, graybeard, has-been, longhair, matriarch, mid-Victorian, mossback, nonagenarian, octogenarian, old believer, old chap, old codger, old crock, old dodo, old dog, old duffer, old fogy, old geezer, old gent, old gentleman, old liner, old man, old party, old poop, old woman, old-timer, older, oldster, pantaloon, patriarch, pop, pops, presbyter, reactionary, regular old fogy, relic, senior citizen, septuagenarian, sexagenarian, square, starets, the quiet-voiced elders, traditionalist, venerable sir, veteran

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Methuselah

Veteran

N veteran, old man, seer, patriarch, graybeard, grandfather, grandsire, grandam, gaffer, gammer, crone, pantaloon, sexagenarian, octogenarian, nonagenarian, centenarian, old stager, dotard, preadamite, Methuselah, Nestor, old Parr, elders, forefathers, superfluous lags the veteran on the stage.