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senexes

senexes is the plural of senex.

Meaning of senex

Noun

senex (plural senexes)

  1. An older or old man, chiefly as a stock character.
    • 6. Old Men or Senexes. Frequently these characters have a beautiful young ward who, often, they wish to marry (or wish to marry off to someone the ward doesn’t like) and it is the task of the hero, the male lead, often helped by a shrewd servant or slave (or similar figure) to outwit the senex and...1997, Arthur Asa Berger, The Art of Comedy Writing, published 2017, →ISBN

Questions about senexes

What is senexes the plural of?
Senexes is the plural of senex.

Words near senexes in the dictionary

  1. Seneses
  2. seneskal
  3. seneskals
  4. senet
  5. senex
  6. senexes
  7. Seney
  8. Seneys
  9. Senfic
  10. senfolomycin
  11. senfolomycins

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