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ろうじん
Meanings
Noun
1. old person; senior citizen; the aged; the elderly
They all look like nothing but ordinary old people.
Alt. forms
老ろう人じん
99%
ろうじん
Pitch accent
ろ
うじん
Used in: 3
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 (27 in total)
go-between; matchmaker
retirement home; old people's home; senior citizens' home
god of longevity
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Examples (119 in total)
Who is that old man?
The old man approached.
An old man came along.
The old man shakes his head sadly.
The old man passed away this morning.
The old man sits on the bench.
The old man's anger melted.
The old man sat down.
The old man sat all alone.
I was doing caregiving for 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.
The old man was loved by everyone.
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.
The old man was sitting with his arms folded.
She married a rich old man.
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.
That old man must be insane.
An old man in shabby clothes was standing there.
The old man asked me a favor.
She had the care of many older people.
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.
They all look like nothing but ordinary old people.
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 stopped suddenly and looked back.
The old man lost his will to live.
A group of youths attacked the old man.
The old man attempted to swim five kilometers.
The old man served the king for many years.
The old man stood on the hill.
The old people were taken good care of.
She helped the old man cross the road.
The old man sometimes talks to himself.
We must be kind to the elderly.
The old man saw my notebook and smiled at me.
An old man sat next to me on the bus.
The old man stood up after knocking the fire out of his pipe.
She must care for the old man.
The old man tried to hide his money under the ground.
The old man was not as mean as he looked.
My parents told me that we should respect the elderly.
He may be old, but he's still full of energy.
Did the old man get lost in the forest?
The old man lost the will to live.
Lots of old people are killed in traffic accidents every year.
Tom speaks like an old man.
The old man spoke to me in French.
The old man walked across the road carefully.
Many old people these days cannot keep up with the times.
Once upon a time, there lived an old man.
One day an old man went fishing in the river.
Today, one of every seven people in Western Europe is classified as elderly.
The old man tends to exaggerate.
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.
Look, that young girl is being chased by the old man.
There lived an old man in the old house.
Once there lived an old man in the village.
The old man told me a strange story.
I met an old man near the station.
This old man actually swam across the river.
There lives an old man in the hut by the lake.
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.
I had failed to ask on what day the old man died.
I saw the old man two or three times a week.
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.
The old man begged me for money.
The old man narrowly escaped being run over by a car.
That old man had been making homemade whiskey for fifty years.
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.
The old man came down the mountain with firewood on his back.
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.
However, the old man did not appear to have any health problems.
The old man left, leading two horses.
When I was asked by an old man where the church was, I pointed it out.
The old man has his magnificent white hair tied back in a single bundle.
Being able to get away with saying somewhat rude things was a privilege of the elderly.
That old man was sound asleep when the bear came.
Ten years for a child is much richer in change than ten years for an old person.
There should be more national hospitals for old people.
The old man contributed a large sum of money to the poor.
They failed to take into account the special needs of old people.
The architect adapted the house to the 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?
They've been away on a hot-spring trip with the people from the seniors' club for three days now.
These seats are reserved for old and sick people.
She visited the old man in the hospital every day but Sunday.
In America elderly people are not given the same degree of respect they receive in many other countries.
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.
A man named Carlos came to a mountain village looking for that old man.