Explore Greybeard through 4 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like bellarmine or man. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Greybeard meaning
- An old man.
- Any of the members of a group who have been there the longest, often implying experience.
- A coarse earthenware vessel for holding liquor; a bellarmine.
Synonyms of Greybeard
Using Greybeard
- The main meaning on this page is: An old man. | Any of the members of a group who have been there the longest, often implying experience. | A coarse earthenware vessel for holding liquor; a bellarmine.
- Useful related words include: old man, long-beard, longbeard, bellarmine.
Context around Greybeard
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 2 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 4 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Greybeard
- In this selection, "greybeard" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, old, kiwibeard, hamish, sysadmins and now stand out and add context to how "greybeard" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and david greybeard and observed and as kiwibeard greybeard or daffodilbeard. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "greybeard" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with greybeard
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Only the old greybeard sysadmins will remember that the two outages are related. (13 words)
Upon loading into the Sea of Thieves main menu, you might see a message such as “KiwiBeard, “Greybeard,” or “DaffodilBeard,” among other facial hair-themed errors. (26 words)
Instead of numbering the chimpanzees she observed, she gave them names such as Fifi and David Greybeard, and observed them to have unique and individual personalities, an unconventional idea at the time. (32 words)
The other wolves -- Tundra (now with Hamish), Greybeard (now with Randall) and Timber (now with Lilith) -- rallied against Sawyer and it took them years to trust Silverback again once Sawyer's bond was severed. (34 words)
Instead of numbering the chimpanzees she observed, she gave them names such as Fifi and David Greybeard, and observed them to have unique and individual personalities, an unconventional idea at the time. (32 words)
Upon loading into the Sea of Thieves main menu, you might see a message such as “KiwiBeard, “Greybeard,” or “DaffodilBeard,” among other facial hair-themed errors. (26 words)
Example sentences (4)
Only the old greybeard sysadmins will remember that the two outages are related.
Upon loading into the Sea of Thieves main menu, you might see a message such as “KiwiBeard, “Greybeard,” or “DaffodilBeard,” among other facial hair-themed errors.
The other wolves -- Tundra (now with Hamish), Greybeard (now with Randall) and Timber (now with Lilith) -- rallied against Sawyer and it took them years to trust Silverback again once Sawyer's bond was severed.
Instead of numbering the chimpanzees she observed, she gave them names such as Fifi and David Greybeard, and observed them to have unique and individual personalities, an unconventional idea at the time.