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Elderly vs Zayde - What's the difference?

elderly | zayde |

As nouns the difference between elderly and zayde

is that elderly is an elderly person while zayde is grandfather.

As an adjective elderly

is old; having lived for relatively many years.

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

    • zayde

    English

    Alternative forms

    * zeidy, zaydeh, zeidi

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • grandfather
  • * 1974 , Fran Ross, Oreo ISBN 9780914870005 page 207:
    • Perhaps, in these circumstances, he would greet his granddaughter as a zayde should, with love and affection.
  • elderly man (as a term of respect)
  • * 3 November 1975 , John Simon, review of Lies My Father Told Me'', ''New York Magazine page 74:
    • The zayde is, as the hoary formula demands, gruff on the outside but wonderful to his horse and David...
  • * 1997 , Susan Berrin, A Heart of Wisdom ISBN 9781879045736 page 200:
    • To many people, the phrase "Jewish elderly" still conjures up images of bearded zaydes'' with ''yarmulkes ...

    References

    * OED 2006