Chapter Words Expressing Abstract Relations of Index by Roget's Thesaurus

(Adverbs). Newly, recently, etc., afresh, anew.

• Oldness (Substantives), age, antiquity, primitiveness, maturity, decline, decay, obsolescence; seniority, first-born, eldest, doyen, eldership, primogeniture.

(Adjectives). Old, ancient, antique, after-age, antiquated, out of date, of long standing, time-honoured, venerable, primitive, diluvian, antediluvian, palèolithic, neolithic, primeval, primordial, prime, pre-Adamite, prehistoric, laudator temporis acti, antemundane, archaic.

Immemorial, inveterate, rooted, medièval.

Senior, elder, eldest, oldest, first-born 128.

Obsolete, obsolescent, out of date, stale, time-worn, faded, decayed, effete, declining, etc., crumbling, decrepit 128, passé.

(Phrases). Nothing new under the sun; old as the hills; old as Methuselah; old as Adam; nihil sub sole novi; having had its day; before the Flood; time out of mind; ancien régime.

• Morning (Substantives), morn, morrow, forenoon, prime, dawn, daybreak, peep of day, break of day, aurora, first blush of the morning, prime of the morning, twilight, crepuscule, sunrise, cockcrow.

Noon, midday, noontide, meridian, noonday, prime, spring, summer.

(Adjectives). Matutinal, auroral, vernal, heliacal.

• Evening (Substantives), eve, e'en, decline of day, fall of day, eventide, nightfall, curfew, dusk, twilight, gloaming, eleventh hour, sunset, afternoon, going down of the sun, midnight; autumn, winter, the fall.

(Phrases). The witching time of night; the dead of night; blind-man's holiday.

(Adjectives). Nocturnal, vespertine, autumnal.

• Youth (Substantives), infancy, babyhood, boyhood, juvenility, childhood, youthhood, juniority, juvenescence, adolescence 131, minority, nonage, teens, tender age, bloom, heyday, boyishness, girlishness.

Cradle, nursery, leading strings, pupilage, pupilship, puberty.

(Phrases). Prime or flower of life; the rising generation; salad days.

(Adjectives). Young, youthful, juvenile, sappy, beardless, under age, in one's teens, boyish, girlish, junior, younger.

(Phrase). In statu pupillari.

• Age (Substantives), old age, senility, senescence, oldness, years, anility, grey hairs, climacteric, decrepitude, hoary age, caducity, crow's - feet, superannuation, dotage, vale of years, seniority, green old age, eldership, elders.

(Phrases). The vale of years; decline of life; the sere and yellow leaf; wane of life; second childhood.

(Adjectives). Aged, old, elderly, senile, matronly, anile, in years, ripe, mellow, grey, grey-headed, hoary, hoar, venerable, timeworn, declining, antiquated, passé, rusty, effete, decrepit, superannuated.

(Phrases). With one foot in the grave; marked with crow's feet; advanced in life, or in years; stricken in years; no chicken,

Patriarchal, ancestral, primitive, pre-Adamite, antediluvian, diluvian.

Older, elder, senior.