"hoary" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /hɔː.ɹi/ [UK], /hɔɹ.i/ [US] Audio: en-us-hoary.ogg [US] Forms: hoarier [comparative], hoariest [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɔːɹi Etymology: Possibly from Middle English *hori (suggested by horilocket (“hoary-locked, having hoary locks or curls”)), equivalent to hoar + -y. Alternatively, Middle English horilocket may represent Middle English hor (“hoar, hoary”) + ilocket (“locked”) rather than hori (“hoary”) + locket (“locked”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|*hori}} Middle English *hori, {{m|enm|horilocket|t=hoary-locked, having hoary locks or curls}} horilocket (“hoary-locked, having hoary locks or curls”), {{suf|en|hoar|y|id2=adjectival}} hoar + -y, {{m+|enm|horilocket}} Middle English horilocket, {{m+|enm|hor|t=hoar, hoary}} Middle English hor (“hoar, hoary”), {{m|enm|ilocket|t=locked}} ilocket (“locked”), {{m|enm|hori|t=hoary}} hori (“hoary”), {{m|enm|locket|t=locked}} locket (“locked”) Head templates: {{en-adj|er}} hoary (comparative hoarier, superlative hoariest)
  1. White, whitish, or greyish-white. Synonyms: albescent, griseous, whity
    Sense id: en-hoary-en-adj-lTJrfev5 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -y (adjectival) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 31 19 11 15 7 10 8 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -y (adjectival): 31 20 7 13 8 10 11
  2. White or grey with age. Synonyms: grey-haired, grizzled, grizzly, silver-haired, white-haired, elderly Translations (white or gray with age): أََشْيَب (ʔaašyab) (Arabic), شيبي (šībi) [Moroccan-Arabic] (Arabic), ալեզարդ (alezard) (Armenian), побелял (pobeljal) (Bulgarian), посивял (posivjal) (Bulgarian), 灰白 (huībái) (Chinese Mandarin), šedivý (Czech), wit (Dutch), grijs (van ouderdom) (Dutch), harmaantunut (Finnish), chenu (French), cano (Galician), ruzo (Galician), altersgrau (German), asbach (German), uralt (German), ergraut (German), γκρίζος (gkrízos) (Greek), γηραιός (giraiós) (Greek), deres (Hungarian), canuto (Italian), 灰色の (haiiro no) (alt: はいいろの) (Japanese), sierms (Latgalian), cānus (Latin), sirms (Latvian), canut (Occitan), grisalho (Portuguese), седо́й (sedój) (Russian), седовла́сый (sedovlásyj) (Russian), убелённый седино́й (ubeljónnyj sedinój) (Russian), cano (Spanish), ağarmış (Turkish), tchenou (Walloon)
    Sense id: en-hoary-en-adj-n5LE5Dwe Disambiguation of 'white or gray with age': 27 60 5 7 0 0 0
  3. (zoology) Of a pale silvery grey. Categories (topical): Zoology
    Sense id: en-hoary-en-adj-cIbNiBAc Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
  4. (botany) Covered with short, dense, greyish white hairs. Categories (topical): Botany Synonyms: canescent
    Sense id: en-hoary-en-adj-jk0YJU38 Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
  5. (figurative) Old or old-fashioned; trite. Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: en-hoary-en-adj-JKihTsNc
  6. (obsolete) Remote in time past. Tags: obsolete Synonyms: bygone, foregone
    Sense id: en-hoary-en-adj-8JwjW~k-
  7. (obsolete) Moldy; mossy; musty. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-hoary-en-adj-mZ-ykUHv
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: hoarily, hoariness, hoary bat, hoary fox, hoary fringe moss, hoary marmot, hoary zorro Related terms: hoar

Inflected forms

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          "code": "pt",
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          "roman": "sedój",
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          "roman": "sedovlásyj",
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          "code": "ru",
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          "roman": "ubeljónnyj sedinój",
          "sense": "white or gray with age",
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          "code": "es",
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          "sense": "white or gray with age",
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          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "white or gray with age",
          "word": "ağarmış"
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          "sense": "white or gray with age",
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          "ref": "1805 [1758], Samuel Hull?, transl. Wilcocke, chapter 5, in An Essay on National Pride, Albion Press, translation of Vom Nationalstolz by Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann, →OCLC, page 40",
          "text": "The probability of these flattering fictions could no longer be examined, when the hoary antiquity of such traditions had gained them veneration. An adventure of ancient date was in blind after-ages too readily received as truth.",
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          "ref": "1985, David Lowenthal, The Past is a Foreign Country, Cambridge University Press, page 242",
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          "ref": "1603, Richard Knolles, “The Life of Solyman, the Fourth and Most Magnificent Emperour of the Turkes”, in Generall Historie of the Turkes, page 624",
          "text": "By chance there was at that time brought out of the citie into the campe verie course, hoarie, moulded bread, which some of the souldiours hauing bought, and thrusting it vpon the points of their speares, shewed it vnto their fellowes in great choller, railing against king Ferdinand, which in his owne kingdome in the beginning of the warre had made no better prouision, but with such corrupt and pestilent bread to feed them being strangers, which were onely for his defence and quarrell to aduenture their liues.",
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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English terms suffixed with -y (adjectival)",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English terms with homophones",
    "Rhymes:English/ɔːɹi",
    "Rhymes:English/ɔːɹi/2 syllables"
  ],
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    {
      "word": "hoarily"
    },
    {
      "word": "hoariness"
    },
    {
      "word": "hoary bat"
    },
    {
      "word": "hoary fox"
    },
    {
      "word": "hoary fringe moss"
    },
    {
      "word": "hoary marmot"
    },
    {
      "word": "hoary zorro"
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "*hori"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English *hori",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "horilocket",
        "t": "hoary-locked, having hoary locks or curls"
      },
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      "name": "m"
    },
    {
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        "3": "y",
        "id2": "adjectival"
      },
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      "name": "suf"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "horilocket"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English horilocket",
      "name": "m+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "hor",
        "t": "hoar, hoary"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English hor (“hoar, hoary”)",
      "name": "m+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "ilocket",
        "t": "locked"
      },
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    },
    {
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      },
      "expansion": "hori (“hoary”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "locket",
        "t": "locked"
      },
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      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Possibly from Middle English *hori (suggested by horilocket (“hoary-locked, having hoary locks or curls”)), equivalent to hoar + -y. Alternatively, Middle English horilocket may represent Middle English hor (“hoar, hoary”) + ilocket (“locked”) rather than hori (“hoary”) + locket (“locked”).",
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    {
      "form": "hoarier",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hoariest",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "er"
      },
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      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "hoar"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1718 [c. 28–103 CE], Joseph Addison, “Bolonia, Modena, Parma, Turin, &c.”, in Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, translation of Punica, book 3 by Silius Italicus",
          "text": "But hoary Winter, unadorn'd and bare,\nDwells in the dire Retreat, and freezes there.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "White, whitish, or greyish-white."
      ],
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        [
          "White",
          "white"
        ],
        [
          "whitish",
          "whitish"
        ],
        [
          "greyish",
          "greyish"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "albescent"
        },
        {
          "word": "griseous"
        },
        {
          "word": "whity"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
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        {
          "text": "The old man bowed his hoary head in acquiescence.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1787, John Rippon, How Firm a Foundation, archived from the original on 2009-03-11",
          "text": "And when hoary hairs shall their temples adorn,\nLike lambs they shall still in My bosom be borne.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, stanza 1",
          "text": "My first thought was, he lied in every word,\nThat hoary cripple, with malicious eye\nAskance to watch the working of his lie\nOn mine […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "White or grey with age."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "age",
          "age"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "grey-haired"
        },
        {
          "word": "grizzled"
        },
        {
          "word": "grizzly"
        },
        {
          "word": "silver-haired"
        },
        {
          "word": "white-haired"
        },
        {
          "word": "elderly"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Zoology"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of a pale silvery grey."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "zoology",
          "zoology"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(zoology) Of a pale silvery grey."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "natural-sciences",
        "zoology"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Botany"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Covered with short, dense, greyish white hairs."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "botany",
          "botany"
        ],
        [
          "hairs",
          "hairs"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(botany) Covered with short, dense, greyish white hairs."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "canescent"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "botany",
        "natural-sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 342",
          "text": "It was, however, most interesting work, and the moulders themselves were a decent crowd, never tired of making jokes about themselves such as the hoary one that moulders did not live long, which however ran counter to the other one that no germs could live in a foundry—the atmosphere was too foul.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in AV Club",
          "text": "In its God-like prime, The Simpsons attacked well-worn satirical fodder from unexpected angles, finding fresh laughs in the hoariest of subjects.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Gary Gerstle, chapter 5, in The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order […], New York: Oxford University Press, Part II. The Neoliberal Order, 1970–2020",
          "text": "Nevertheless, the hoary capitalist principle of innovation and competition leading to consolidation and monopoly still operated.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Old or old-fashioned; trite."
      ],
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        [
          "Old",
          "old"
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        [
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          "old-fashioned"
        ],
        [
          "trite",
          "trite"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) Old or old-fashioned; trite."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1805 [1758], Samuel Hull?, transl. Wilcocke, chapter 5, in An Essay on National Pride, Albion Press, translation of Vom Nationalstolz by Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann, →OCLC, page 40",
          "text": "The probability of these flattering fictions could no longer be examined, when the hoary antiquity of such traditions had gained them veneration. An adventure of ancient date was in blind after-ages too readily received as truth.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1985, David Lowenthal, The Past is a Foreign Country, Cambridge University Press, page 242",
          "text": "Plant and animal species of hoary antiquity or at an evolutionary dead end seem similarly outdated. Remnant exemplars of the coelacanth, the tuatara, the Joshua tree are anachronisms more at home in previous than present environments.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Remote in time past."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) Remote in time past."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "bygone"
        },
        {
          "word": "foregone"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1603, Richard Knolles, “The Life of Solyman, the Fourth and Most Magnificent Emperour of the Turkes”, in Generall Historie of the Turkes, page 624",
          "text": "By chance there was at that time brought out of the citie into the campe verie course, hoarie, moulded bread, which some of the souldiours hauing bought, and thrusting it vpon the points of their speares, shewed it vnto their fellowes in great choller, railing against king Ferdinand, which in his owne kingdome in the beginning of the warre had made no better prouision, but with such corrupt and pestilent bread to feed them being strangers, which were onely for his defence and quarrell to aduenture their liues.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Moldy; mossy; musty."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Moldy",
          "moldy"
        ],
        [
          "mossy",
          "mossy"
        ],
        [
          "musty",
          "musty"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) Moldy; mossy; musty."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
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      "ipa": "/hɔː.ɹi/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hɔɹ.i/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɔːɹi"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "whorey"
    },
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/En-us-hoary.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ʔaašyab",
      "sense": "white or gray with age",
      "word": "أََشْيَب"
    },
    {
      "code": "ary",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "šībi",
      "sense": "white or gray with age",
      "tags": [
        "Moroccan-Arabic"
      ],
      "word": "شيبي"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "alezard",
      "sense": "white or gray with age",
      "word": "ալեզարդ"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "pobeljal",
      "sense": "white or gray with age",
      "word": "побелял"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "posivjal",
      "sense": "white or gray with age",
      "word": "посивял"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "huībái",
      "sense": "white or gray with age",
      "word": "灰白"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "white or gray with age",
      "word": "šedivý"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "white or gray with age",
      "word": "wit"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "white or gray with age",
      "word": "grijs (van ouderdom)"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "white or gray with age",
      "word": "harmaantunut"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "white or gray with age",
      "word": "chenu"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "white or gray with age",
      "word": "cano"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "white or gray with age",
      "word": "ruzo"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "white or gray with age",
      "word": "altersgrau"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "white or gray with age",
      "word": "asbach"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "white or gray with age",
      "word": "uralt"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "white or gray with age",
      "word": "ergraut"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "gkrízos",
      "sense": "white or gray with age",
      "word": "γκρίζος"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "giraiós",
      "sense": "white or gray with age",
      "word": "γηραιός"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "white or gray with age",
      "word": "deres"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "white or gray with age",
      "word": "canuto"
    },
    {
      "alt": "はいいろの",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "haiiro no",
      "sense": "white or gray with age",
      "word": "灰色の"
    },
    {
      "code": "ltg",
      "lang": "Latgalian",
      "sense": "white or gray with age",
      "word": "sierms"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "white or gray with age",
      "word": "cānus"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "white or gray with age",
      "word": "sirms"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "white or gray with age",
      "word": "canut"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "white or gray with age",
      "word": "grisalho"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sedój",
      "sense": "white or gray with age",
      "word": "седо́й"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sedovlásyj",
      "sense": "white or gray with age",
      "word": "седовла́сый"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ubeljónnyj sedinój",
      "sense": "white or gray with age",
      "word": "убелённый седино́й"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "white or gray with age",
      "word": "cano"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "white or gray with age",
      "word": "ağarmış"
    },
    {
      "code": "wa",
      "lang": "Walloon",
      "sense": "white or gray with age",
      "word": "tchenou"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hoary"
}

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