"grey-haired" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Etymology: From grey + haired. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|grey|haired}} grey + haired Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} grey-haired (not comparable)
  1. Having grey hair. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Hair colors Synonyms (having grey hair): grizzled, grizzly, greyish, hoary Translations (having grey hair): أَشْيَب (ʔašyab) (Arabic), ալեզարդ (alezard) (Armenian), посивял (posivjal) (Bulgarian), çalbaş (Crimean Tatar), šedivý [masculine] (Czech), gråhåret (Danish), grijsharig (Dutch), harmaatukkainen (Finnish), harmaahapsinen (Finnish), chenu (French), ősz (Hungarian), őszhajú (Hungarian), gráhærður (Icelandic), liath (Irish), ceannliath (Irish), brizzolato (Italian), cānus (Latin), žilas [masculine] (Lithuanian), си́вокос (sívokos) (Macedonian), beruban (Malay), hinahina (Maori), tārekoreko (Maori), gråhåret (Norwegian Bokmål), gråhåra (Norwegian Bokmål), gråhåra (Norwegian Nynorsk), gråhærd (Norwegian Nynorsk), greiwhoarich (Plautdietsch), siwowłosy (Polish), grisalho (Portuguese), седо́й (sedój) (Russian), седовла́сый (sedovlásyj) (Russian), седоволо́сый (sedovolósyj) (Russian), sed (Serbo-Croatian), sedokos (Serbo-Croatian), canoso (Spanish), gråhårig (Swedish), ubanan (Tausug), си́вий (sývyj) [masculine] (Ukrainian), сивоволо́сий (syvovolósyj) (Ukrainian), penllwyd (Welsh), qaingqellria (Yup'ik)
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  2. (by extension, figurative) old, wise, experienced. Tags: broadly, figuratively, not-comparable Synonyms (old): hoary Synonyms (wise): frood
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: senior, venerable, elderly, old, quick-witted, sagacious, wise, gray-haired, grayhaired, greyhaired Related terms: silver-haired, silvery-haired, white-haired, give someone grey hair

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      "word": "gråhærd"
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      "word": "greiwhoarich"
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      "roman": "syvovolósyj",
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      "word": "сивоволо́сий"
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      "word": "penllwyd"
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}

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