Old and Paternal

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Old adjective - Being of advanced years and especially past middle age.

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Paternal and old are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Paternal" instead an adjective "Old".

Nearby Words: oldie, olden, oldish

Paternal adjective - Characteristic of a father.

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Old and paternal are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Old" instead an adjective "Paternal".

Nearby Words: paternity, paternalistic, paternalist, paternalism, paternally

When his parents died, he was taken in by his evil paternal family (the old man's widow as well as his younger uncles and stepsiblings) and from there it went From Bad to Worse.

Source: Son of a Whore
Instead, he's a cross between an old-school, paternal, laird-of-the-manor-type boss and the most blithely apathetic incarnation of the Standard '50s Father.

Source: Literature / Another Time, Another Place
Peter's father was born when Ben was already an adult, so one can assume Peter's paternal grandparents would be too old.

Source: World of No Grandparents

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