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年とし寄より
Meanings
Adjective (の)
Noun
Sensitive
1. old person; elderly person; senior citizen
Elderly people are, in any case, long-winded.
Noun
Sumo
2. trustee of the Japan Sumo Association; retired high-ranking wrestler who is licensed to coach and receives retirement pay
3. senior statesman (of the Tokugawa shogunate)
4. important local official (under the Tokugawa Shogunate)
Alt. forms
年とし寄より
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年とし寄より
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年としより
6%
Kanji used
年
year
寄
get near
Pitch accent
と
しよ
り
と
しより
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Used in: 2036
Composed of
year; age; years; past one's prime; old age
pushing back one's opponent while locked in close quarters; having a tendency towards; being close to
Used in vocabulary (10 in total)
in the manner of an old person; like that of an old person; fusty; old-fashioned; fogyish
in the manner of an old person; like that of an old person; fusty; old-fashioned; fogyish
an old man's indiscretions
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Examples (18 in total)
The old dog barked.
Did you help the elderly person who was in trouble?
Old men are apt to forget.
I make a point of speaking to elderly people.
Old people need something to live for.
Elderly people are, in any case, long-winded.
Though I am old, you are still young.
Let's give that seat to an elderly person.
Old people get up very early.
My parents told me we should respect the elderly.
That is such a high mountain as old people can't climb.
We must be as kind to old people as possible.
The type who happily gives up their seat on the train to the elderly.
He's still only sixty, so he's not really old.
These seats are reserved for old people.
The blind nurse devoted herself to caring for the elderly.
The old man gave me a useful piece of advice.
The police officer on duty sensed an elderly man coming up behind him.