white-haired

white-haired adjective: having white hair; especially, of a person, from old age.

Adjective

white-haired (not comparable)

Having white hair; especially, of a person, from old age.
- Near-synonyms: grizzly, silver-haired; see also Thesaurus:grey-haired
- The white-haired king took the tidings with calm, believing that he must have in some fashion broken a law without knowing.1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 41
Synonyms:

hoary, elder, elderly, geriatric, gerontologic, gerontological, long in the tooth, matured, of a certain age, old as Methuselah

white-haired meaning in Arabic

white-haired in Arabic

having white hair: أَشْيَب ʔašyab

Synonyms of white-haired

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on in years
over the hill
senior
superannuated
ivy-covered
preserved
wintry
grizzly
silver-haired
gray / grey
gray-headed / grey-headed
grey-haired / gray-haired
grizzled
silvery-haired
grisly
mouldy

All synonyms of white-haired

Forms of white-haired

alternative form	whitehaired

Origin of white-haired

From Middle English white-heered, white-harid, white-herede, whyte-harede, white hared, equivalent to white + haired. Compare Old Norse hvít-hárr and hvít-hærðr (“white-haired”).

Questions about white-haired

What does white-haired mean?: White-haired means having white hair; especially, of a person, from old age.
What is white-haired in Arabic?: White-haired in Arabic is أَشْيَب (ʔašyab). See White-haired meaning in Arabic.
What part of speech is white-haired?: White-haired is an adjective.

Words near white-haired in the dictionary

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