Crossword-Solution: OLDSTER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Oldster | n. | An old person. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EEATR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with OLDSTER (5)
For I trust none here in Trolldom, save the _Jomfrau_--the White Virgin! "After the oldster was _adsprede_"--Olaf once more used that expressive Norwegian word for the dissolving of Songar--"I knew that it was a time for cunning.
The pressure at a depth of forty feet is no joke for a young man, yet it did not seem to inconvenience this oldster.
Here, at least, an oldster may have the advantage of his young fellow-travellers, and so Putney Heath or the New Road may be invested with a halo of brightness invisible to them, because it only beams out of his own soul.
You young folks don't remember the apple-girls who used to follow the diligence up the hill beyond Boulogne, and the delights of the jolly road? In making continental journeys with young folks, an oldster may be very quiet, and, to outward appearance, melancholy; but really he has gone back to the days of his youth, and he is seventeen or eighteen years of age (as the case may be), and is amusing himself with all his might.
But are those Indians and warriors so terrible as our Indians and warriors were? (I say, are they? Young gentlemen, mind, I do not say they are not.) But as an oldster I can be heartily thankful for the novels of the 1-10 Geo.
Quotes with OLDSTER (1)
We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the ris- ing generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected to take the oldsters' side, but in fact I have been far more impressed by the bad manners of par- ents to children than by those of children to parents. Who has not been the embarrassed guest at family meals where the father or mother treated their grown-up offspring with an incivility which, offered to any other young people, would simply have termi- nated the acq…
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Appears in: AARP, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 55 times in crossword archives (1951–2022).