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# hoary

«hoary» in Mova's school dictionary: **Grey or white-haired, as an old person is** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (hoary, hoarier, hoariest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Grey or white-haired, as an old person is. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hoary/#m1)

2) Old and well known, from long ago, as in «a hoary legend». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hoary/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, an old man with white hair or an ancient legend told for ages

### examples

- The hoary old man smiled at us. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hoary/#x1)
- The hoary legend tells of a piper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hoary/#x2)
- Hoary old jokes make the class groan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hoary/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [The hoary head is a crown of glory, it is found in the way of righteousness.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.474/)
- [The glory of young men is their strength; and the beauty of old men is the hoary head.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.587/)
- [He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.1155/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hoary» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hoary/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.