older

adjective

1. 1

   skilled through long experience

   an old offender

   the older soldiers

2. 2

   advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables)

   aged members of the society

   elderly residents could remember the construction of the first skyscraper

3. 3

   used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son

   Bill Adams, Sr.