hoary

«hoary» in Mova's school dictionary: Grey or white-haired, as an old person is — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (hoary, hoarier, hoariest)

meaning for a pupil

1) Grey or white-haired, as an old person is. tree →

2) Old and well known, from long ago, as in «a hoary legend». tree →

sense in the lessons

in stories, an old man with white hair or an ancient legend told for ages

examples

• The hoary old man smiled at us. tree →
• The hoary legend tells of a piper. tree →
• Hoary old jokes make the class groan. tree →

note

nothing for maths

In the corpora

• The hoary head is a crown of glory, it is found in the way of righteousness.
• The glory of young men is their strength; and the beauty of old men is the hoary head.
• He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «hoary» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.