1. skilled through long experience
e.g. an old offender
the older soldiers
Synonym: old
2. advanced in years
(`aged' is pronounced as two syllables)
e.g. aged members of the society
elderly residents could remember the construction of the first skyscraper
senior citizen
3. used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son
e.g. Bill Adams, Sr.
Synonym: eldersr.