Usually means: Elderly person, often wise, experienced.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word oldster:

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  1. oldster: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. oldster: Merriam-Webster
  3. oldster: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. oldster: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. oldster: Collins English Dictionary
  6. oldster: Vocabulary.com
  7. oldster: Wordnik
  8. oldster: Wiktionary
  9. oldster: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. oldster: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. oldster: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Oldster, oldster: Dictionary.com
  13. Oldster: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. oldster: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. oldster: Rhymezone
  16. Oldster: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. oldster: FreeDictionary.org
  18. oldster: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. oldster: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. oldster: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. oldster: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (informal, sometimes disrespectful) Someone who is old.
noun:  (nautical) A midshipman of four years' standing; a master's mate.

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