grand old man
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.81 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A male leading light; a man who is the most senior exponent of a particular field.
Example Sentences
- "Cervantes's Quixote made him the grand old man of belles-lettres."
- "Lope K. Santos, the "grand old man" of Tagalog letters, had long ago deplored the mechanical goodyism of the reading material […]"
- "We were fortunate to be accompanied by another member of Terramar, Volkmar Vareschi, a German-born Venezuelan now in his 80s who is a superb artist and the country's grand old man of tropical ecology."