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Elderly vs Agin - What's the difference?

elderly | agin |

As an adjective elderly

is old; having lived for relatively many years.

As a noun elderly

is an elderly person.

As an adverb agin is

alternative form of lang=en.

As a preposition agin is

alternative form of lang=en.

elderly

English

Adjective

(head)
  • old; having lived for relatively many years

    • Related terms

    * elder * old

    Noun

    (elderlies)
  • an elderly person
  • (the elderly) older people as a whole

    • agin

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • * 1859 , (Charles Dickens), "A Tale of Two Cities", in (All the Year Round) , vol. 1, p. 98:
  • ** At which juncture, he exclaimed, in a voice of dire exasperation : “Bust me, if she ain't at it agin !”

    • Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • * 1859 , (w, Harper's New Monthly Magazine) , vol. 19, p. 278:
  • ** [The Court] said: "Young man, this ere Court is satisfied that there ain't nothin' in the laws of Vermont agin''' tippin' over a churn full of sap. [...] But I want ye should remember one thing—that this ere Court has made up his mind that it's a very naughty trick, and it's a shame that there's so many maple-trees in the State, and no law '''agin tippin' over sap."

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