Meaning of old people | Babel Free
Definitions
Aboriginal people of earlier generations, or living in a traditional manner, as regarded by their descendants as repositories of traditional knowledge.
Equivalents
日本語
白首
Examples
“‘You don't see⟳ them figs nowhere else up here. And it didn't get⟳ here by accident neither. Them old people planted her beside the springs in a sheltered place⟳ against the rocks hundreds of years back.’”
“She breathed in the scent of the gum leaves and the wattle blossom washing across the narrow channel that separated them from the Old People.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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