ろうじん
Meanings
Noun
1. old person; senior citizen; the aged; the elderly
Kanji used
elderly
person
Pitch accent
うじん
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Composed of
old age; age; old people; (arch.) I; (arch.) me; (arch.) my humble self
-ian (e.g. Italian); -ite (e.g. Tokyoite); -er (e.g. performer, etc.); person working with ...; man; person
Used in vocabulary (22 in total)
retirement home; old people's home; senior citizens' home
care for the aged; elderly care; aged care
Examples (105 in total)
Who is that old man?
The old man approached.
An old man came along.
The old man passed away this morning.
The old man's anger melted.
The old man sat down.
The old man sat all alone.
You need to respect the elderly.
The old man starved to death.
A portrait of an old man was hanging on the wall.
He was a disagreeable old man.
It was an old man that was hit by the black car.
The old man said something.
An old man spoke to me suddenly.
The old man sat surrounded by the children.
She led the old man into the room.
Old people are inclined to look back on the past.
The sudden noise startled the old man.
She married a rich old man.
The old man was sitting with his arms folded.
The old man died last week.
The old man is blind in one eye.
The old man lives by himself.
The old man looked wise.
An old man was resting in the shade of the tree.
The old man lived by himself.
The old man died of cancer.
That old man must be insane.
Old people look back on the past too much.
The old man asked me a favor.
She had the care of many older people.
The old man lives on his pension.
We held a pleasant conversation with the old man.
The old man possesses great wealth.
That old man is, so to speak, a walking dictionary.
There are many old people in this village.
The old man asked me the time.
There lived an old man in a village.
The old man sat in the chair with his eyes closed.
The old man stopped suddenly and looked back.
The old man lost his will to live.
A group of youths attacked the old man.
The old man served the king for many years.
The old people were taken good care of.
She helped the old man cross the road.
We must be kind to the elderly.
The old man predicted our success.
An old man sat next to me on the bus.
The old man saw my notebook and smiled at me.
She must care for the old man.
The old man tried to hide his money under the ground.
He may be old, but he's still full of energy.
My parents told me that we should respect the elderly.
Did the old man get lost in the forest?
Lots of old people are killed in traffic accidents every year.
The old man lost the will to live.
Tom speaks like an old man.
The old man is always accompanied by his grandson.
She helped the old man across the street.
The old man was sitting there, with crossed legs.
Once upon a time, there lived an old man.
Once there lived an old man in a village.
There once lived an old man on that island.
The old man stood still at the gate.
He is an old man and should be treated as such.
There lived an old man in the old house.
Once there lived an old man in the village.
Look, that young girl is being chased by the old man.
The old man told me a strange story.
I met an old man near the station.
The old man was almost hit by a car.
The old man left a large fortune to his wife.
Amazingly, the old man recovered his health.
The old man has lived here all his life.
Young people usually have more energy than the old.
There is a lack of communication between the young and the old.
Many old people these days can't keep up with the times.
We sometimes lack patience with old people.
The boy gave up his seat to the old man on the bus.
Above all, try to be kind to the old.
The old man freed the little fox from the trap.
But this is the story of an old man who wants to die.
At that moment tears ran down the old man's face.
The old man told us about the amusing incident.
The old man is wise and knows many things about life.
When I was asked by an old man where the church was, I pointed it out.
The old man contributed a large sum of money to the poor.
The architect adapted the house to the needs of old people.
They failed to take into account the special needs of old people.
The old man spent most of his time looking back on his youth.
Why do you talk about him as if he were an old man?
These seats are reserved for old and sick people.
She visited the old man in the hospital every day but Sunday.
The current low status of the elderly may be changing, however.
The little girl, deeply moved by the old man's pitiful story, burst into tears.
On crowded buses, young people should give their seats to old people.
One day an old man went fishing in the river.
Today, one of every seven people in Western Europe is classified as elderly.
This old man actually swam across the river.
There lives an old man in the hut by the lake.
I saw the old man two or three times a week.
That old man had been making homemade whiskey for fifty years.
The old man retired from public life ten years ago.
In America elderly people are not given the same degree of respect they receive in many other countries.
A man named Carlos came to a mountain village looking for that old man.