Thesaurus results for OLD MEN

old men

noun

plural of old man

as in dads

a male human parent I'll ask my old man if he's up for a round of golf this weekend

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as in husbands

the male partner in a marriage my old man and I have been together for 10 years now

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as in boyfriends

a male romantic companion my old man and I have decided to move in together

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Recent Examples of old men And then there was Vozinha, the 40-year-old Cape Verde goalkeeper, making his World Cup debut in a sport not inclined to celebrate old men playing for rookie nations. — Jerry Brewer, New York Times, 20 July 2026 The way Luke is handling the love triangle with Joy and Gen makes Nathan and Joe look like sage old men. — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 30 June 2026 One of the 20-year-old men was shot in the chest and pronounced dead at the scene. — Darius Johnson, CBS News, 30 June 2026 Twenty-year-old men would be the first age group chosen. — George Petras, USA Today, 30 Mar. 2026 Doors are being smashed and old men dragged out of bed. — Dr. Michael Good, Hartford Courant, 3 Feb. 2026 According to booking records, the suspects appear to be two 18-year-old men. — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 19 Jan. 2026 It’s based on a 2007 study in Mayo Clinic Proceedings where scientists divided two groups of 50 and 60-year-old men and women into two groups. — Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2025 The number of 20-year-old men—the primary age for conscription—has fallen 30 percent since 2019 to about 230,000. — Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025

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He's got big plans for Season 3 Popular captions for the meme joke about male authority figures like dads and uncles ordering the viewer to do ludicrous tasks.

— Owen Carry, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2026
In June, the Institute for Family Studies reported that today’s dads put in three times as many hours on housework and childcare as in the 1960s.

— The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of dads

Noun

As the years go by, babies are born, parents get sick and die, careers are started then ended, wives and husbands are thwarted, and, eventually, sheets are strewn and booties are tapped.

— Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2026
Since wives were supposed to obey their husbands, men might be justified in physically disciplining them.

— Gloria Steinem, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of husbands

Noun

The tired, the sick, the hungry, the famous and tons of ex-boyfriends, all regretting their wrongs.

— Courtney Love, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2026
As well as the two ur-bad boyfriends from HBO’s Girls Christopher Abbott and Adam Driver who will portray, respectively, Professor Charles Xavier and Nathaniel Milbury/Mister Sinister.

— Chris Lee, Vulture, 16 Aug. 2026

Definition of boyfriends

Noun

There were so many young women who were pregnant that day and the fathers of the babies were lost in the towers—from firefighters to office managers.

— Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 9 Sep. 2026
Others criticized them for often being the progeny of Asian mothers and white fathers, as though this were somehow their fault.

— E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of fathers

Noun

Jenkins said sextortion is another significant concern that can impact children with law enforcement seeing particularly serious impacts among teen boys.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 Sep. 2026
George is following in the footsteps of father Prince William and uncle Prince Harry, who also attended the boarding school for boys.

— Jennifer Hassan, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2026

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