First in order of birth:
— The firstborn child.
synonym: eldest.
Roget 124:
old,
ancient,
antique;
of long standing,
time-honored,
venerable;
elder,
eldest;
firstborn.
prime;
primitive,
primeval,
primigenous†;
paleolontological,
paleontologic,
paleoanthropological,
paleoanthropic†,
paleolithic,
primordial,
primordinate†;
aboriginal
etc.
(beginning)
66;
diluvian†,
antediluvian;
protohistoric†;
prehistoric;
antebellum,
colonial,
precolumbian;
patriarchal,
preadamite†;
paleocrystic†;
fossil,
paleozoolical,
paleozoic,
preglacial†,
antemundane†;
archaic,
classic,
medieval,
Pre-Raphaelite,
ancestral,
black-letter.
immemorial,
traditional,
prescriptive,
customary,
whereof the memory of man runneth not to the whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary;
inveterate,
rooted.
antiquated,
of other times,
rococo,
of the old school,
after-age,
obsolete;
out of date,
out of fashion,
out of it;
stale,
old-fashioned,
behind the age;
old-world;
exploded;
gone out,
gone by;
passe,
run out;
senile
etc.
128;
time worn;
crumbling
etc.
(deteriorated)
659;
secondhand.
old as the hills,
old as Methuselah,
old as Adam†,
old as history.
[geological eras (list, starting at given number of years bp)]
Archeozoic
[5,000,000,000],
Proterozoic
[1,500,000,000],
Paleozoic
[600,000,000],
Mesozoic
[220,000,000],
Cenozoic
[70,000,000].
[geological periods]
Precambrian,
Cambrian
[600,000,000],
Ordovician
[500,000,000],
Silurian
[440,000,000],
Devonian
[400,000,000],
Mississippian
[350,000,000],
Pennsylvanian
[300,000,000],
Permian
[270,000,000],
Triassic
[220,000,000],
Jurassic
[180,000,000],
Cretaceous
[135,000,000],
Tertiary
[70,000,000],
Paleogene
[70,000,000],
Neocene
[25,0000,000],
Quaternary
[1,000,000].
[geological epochs (list, starting at 70,000,000 years bp)]
Paleocene,
Eocene,
Oligocene,
Miocene,
Pliocene,
Pleistocene,
Recent.
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Roget 128:
aged;
old
etc.
124;
elderly,
geriatric,
senile;
matronly,
anile†;
in years;
ripe,
mellow,
run to seed,
declining,
waning,
past one's prime;
gray,
gray-headed;
hoar,
hoary;
venerable,
time-worn,
antiquated,
passe,
effete,
decrepit,
superannuated;
advanced in life,
advanced in years;
stricken in years;
wrinkled,
marked withthe crow's foot;
having one foot in the grave;
doting
etc.
(imbecile)
499;
like the last of pea time.
older,
elder,
eldest;
senior;
firstborn.
turned of,
years old;
of a certain age,
no chicken,
old as Methuselah;
ancestral,
patriarchal,
etc.
(ancient)
124;
gerontic.
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