Synonyms

senior citizen

senior citizen

noun
an elderly or aged person, especially one who is retired or whose principal source of support is a pension or Social Security benefits.

Origin:
1935–40

senior citizenship, noun
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Senior citizen is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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senior citizen
 
n
an old age pensioner

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senior citizen

in human beings, the final stage of the normal life span. Definitions of old age are not consistent from the standpoints of biology, demography (conditions of mortality and morbidity), employment and retirement, and sociology. For statistical and public administrative purposes, however, old age is frequently defined as 60 or 65 years of age or older

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