Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

old people

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.63 in modern English

Syllables: old peo-ple
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Aboriginal people of earlier generations, or living in a traditional manner, as regarded by their descendants as repositories of traditional knowledge.

Australian usage

Example Sentences

"‘You don't see them figs nowhere else up here. And it didn't get here by accident neither. Them old people planted her beside the springs in a sheltered place against the rocks hundreds of years back.’"
"She breathed in the scent of the gum leaves and the wattle blossom washing across the narrow channel that separated them from the Old People."

Usage

Australian usage

Questions

What does old people mean?: Aboriginal people of earlier generations, or living in a traditional manner, as regarded by their descendants as repositories of traditional knowledge.

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