Grayhead

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A person with gray hair; an elderly person. Canada, US

    "What is most troublesome to me is that our residents — no matter how much we grayheads or graybeards model the approach to history-taking from parents — learn that the checklist on the computer screen is the thing to look at, and not the living person describing their child and her problems."

Example

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"What is most troublesome to me is that our residents — no matter how much we grayheads or graybeards model the approach to history-taking from parents — learn that the checklist on the computer screen is the thing to look at, and not the living person describing their child and her problems."

Etymology

From gray + head.

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