older

adj. advanced in years, aged, senior, elderly; old in having experience

adj. aged; elderly; not new; veteran; former; of the age #

}}"Older" / "I Can't Make You Love Me" is a single released by George Michael. Also an EP (under the name "The Older EP"), the single is mainly composed of the song "Older" and a cover of Bonnie Raitt's single "I Can't Make You Love Me". Reaching the Top 5 in the UK, the single peaked at #3 there, nearly besting his previous single "Spinning the Wheel" by just one place.
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For the song of the same title see "Older / I Can't Make You Love Me"For the Royseven song, see "Older (song)". Older is the third studio album from George Michael, released May 14 1996 (see 1996 in music). The album's U.S. and Canada release was particularly notable as it was the first album released by the now-defunct DreamWorks Records (the first DreamWorks album released internationally, however, was Beautiful Freak by Eels). The album produced an amazing string of hit singles, making Michael become the first artist in UK chart history to have six top 3 singles from one album.
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Adjective
1. advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables); "aged members of the society"; "elderly residents could remember the construction of the first skyscraper"; "senior citizen"
(synonym) aged, elderly, senior
(similar) old
2. older brother or sister; "big sister"
(synonym) big(a), elder
3. used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son; "Bill Adams, Sr."
(synonym) elder, sr.
(similar) senior
4. old in experience; "an old offender"; "the older soldiers"
(synonym) old
(similar) experienced

Noun
1. past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old')
(hypernym) past, past times, yesteryear, yore
Adjective
1. (used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age; especially not young; often used as a combining form to indicate an age as specified as in `a week-old baby'; "an old man's eagle mind"--William Butler Yeats; "his mother is very old"; "a ripe old age"; "how old are you?"
(antonym) young, immature
(similar) aged, elderly, older, senior
(see-also) experienced
(attribute) age
2. of long duration; not new; "old tradition"; "old house"; "old wine"; "old country"; "old friendships"; "old money"
(antonym) new
(similar) age-old, antique
(see-also) noncurrent
(attribute) age
3. of an earlier time; "his old classmates"
(similar) past
4. (used for emphasis) very familiar; "good old boy"; "same old story"
(synonym) old(a)
(similar) familiar
5. lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new; "moth-eaten theories about race"
(synonym) stale, moth-eaten
(similar) unoriginal
6. just preceding something else in time or order; "the previous owner"; "my old house was larger"
(synonym) previous(a)
(similar) preceding(a)
7. old in experience; "an old offender"; "the older soldiers"
(synonym) older
(similar) experienced
8. used informally especially for emphasis; "a real honest-to-god live cowboy"; "had us a high old time"; "went upriver to look at a sure-enough fish wheel"
(synonym) honest-to-god, honest-to-goodness, old(a), sure-enough(a)
(similar) genuine, echt

yi1 fu4 shi4 xin1 de hao3, peng2 you3 shi4 jiu4 de hao3
When it's a matter of clothing, new is better, but when it's a matter of friends, old are better
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Synonyms and related words:
Father Time, Methuselah, Nestor, Old Paar, antecedent, anterior, anticipatory, centenarian, ci-devant, dean, dotard, doyen, doyenne, earlier, early, elder, eldest, father, first, first-born, firstling, fore, foregoing, former, gaffer, geezer, golden-ager, gramps, grandfather, grandsire, graybeard, major, nonagenarian, octogenarian, old chap, old codger, old dog, old duffer, old geezer, old gent, old gentleman, old man, old party, old-timer, oldest, oldster, pantaloon, patriarch, preceding, precurrent, preexistent, presbyter, previous, prime, primogenitary, prior, senior, senior citizen, septuagenarian, sexagenarian, sire, the quiet-voiced elders, venerable sir, veteran