Word Meanings - MATRONLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Advanced in years; elderly. 2. Like, or befitting, a matron; grave; sedate.

Related words: (words related to MATRONLY)

• MATRONAL
  Of or pertaining to a matron; suitable to an elderly lady or to a married woman; grave; motherly.
• GRAVES
  The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
• GRAVEDIGGER
  See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.
• SEDATE
  Undisturbed by passion or caprice; calm; tranquil; serene; not passionate or giddy; composed; staid; as, a sedate soul, mind, or temper. Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.
• MATRON
  1. A wife or a widow, especially, one who has borne children; a woman of staid or motherly manners. Your wives, your daughters, Your matrons, and your maids. Shak. Grave from her cradle, insomuch that she was a matron before she was a
• ELDERLY
  Somewhat old; advanced beyond middle age; bordering on old age; as, elderly people.
• GRAVEL
  A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder. (more info) strand; of Celtic origin; cf. Armor.
• ADVANCING EDGE
  The front edge of a supporting surface; -- contr. with following edge, which is the rear edge.
• MATRONIZE
  1. To make a matron of; to make matronlike. Childbed matronizes the giddiest spirits. Richardson. 2. To act the part of a marton toward; to superintend; to chaperone; as, to matronize an assembly.
• GRAVEN
  Carved. Graven image, an idol; an object of worship carved from wood, stone, etc. "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image." Ex. xx. 4.
• ADVANCE
  supposed LL. abantiare; ab + ante before. The spelling 1. To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on. 2. To raise; to elevate. They . . . advanced their eyelids. Shak. 3. To raise to a higher rank; to promote. Ahasueres
• ADVANCED
  1. In the van or front. 2. In the front or before others, as regards progress or ideas; as, advanced opinions, advanced thinkers. 3. Far on in life or time. A gentleman advanced in years, with a hard experience written in his wrinkles. Hawthorne.
• MATRONLY
  1. Advanced in years; elderly. 2. Like, or befitting, a matron; grave; sedate.
• MATRONYMIC
  See METRONYMIC
• GRAVEYARD
  A yard or inclosure for the interment of the dead; a cemetery.
• BEFITTINGLY
  In a befitting manner; suitably.
• GRAVELING; GRAVELLING
  1. The act of covering with gravel. 2. A layer or coating of gravel .
• GRAVES' DISEASE
  See DISEASE
• GRAVELESS
  Without a grave; unburied.
• GRAVELLINESS
  State of being gravelly.
• WILDGRAVE
  A waldgrave, or head forest keeper. See Waldgrave. The wildgrave winds his bugle horn. Sir W. Scott.
• PALGRAVE
  See PALSGRAVE
• PORTGREVE; PORTGRAVE
  In old English law, the chief magistrate of a port or maritime town.; a portreeve. Fabyan.
• INGRAVE
  To engrave. "Whose gleaming rind ingrav'n." Tennyson.
• UNGRAVE
  To raise or remove from the grave; to disinter; to untomb; to exhume. Fuller.