older

«older» in Mova's school dictionary: having lived more years than someone else — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (comparative of old)

meaning for a pupil

1) Older means having lived more years than someone else. tree →

2) Older means made or used longer ago than something else: «an older house». tree →

sense in the lessons

more years than another person: «A is D years older than B»: A = B + D; «How much older» asks for the difference; phrases: «older than», «older brother», «older sister», «get older»

examples

• Anna is 3 years older than Tom. tree →
• Sam is 10 and Max is 2 years older. tree →
• How much older is Mia than Zoe? tree →
• My older sister goes to high school. tree →
• Trees get taller as they get older. tree →
• This phone is older than mine. tree →
• Grandma is 40 years older than me. tree →
• The older children help the little ones. tree →
• And they grew older and wiser. tree →

note

«A is D years older than B»: A = B + D. «How much older» asks for the difference: subtract. Trap: if A's age is given, B = A − D. «elder» is used for family: my elder brother.

In the corpora

• Grown-ups also tease children about girlfriends and crushes, and older people sometimes find new partners late in life.
• An older person who finds a new partner after losing a husband or wife has not forgotten the one who died.
• Labour can take many hours, so a grandparent or friend often comes to look after the older children.
• Feeling jealous of a new baby is very common, and parents still love the older child just as much.
• The flu jab is free for the over-sixty-fives because flu is much more dangerous for older people.

Trees and pragmatics

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