The Clue
Describing a doyen (6 letter answer)
The Answer
OLDEST
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Notes
The answer OLDEST is uncommon, appearing about once every 425 puzzles.
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Definition
OLD as an adjective:
1. (used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age; "an old man's eagle mind"--William Butler Yeats; "his mother is very old"; "a ripe old age"; "how old are you?"
2. of long duration; not new; "old tradition"; "old house"; "old wine"; "old country"; "old friendships"; "old money"
3. (used for emphasis) very familiar; "good old boy"; "same old story"
4. (previous, old) = just preceding something else in time or order; "the previous owner"; "my old house was larger"
5. of a very early stage in development; "Old English is also called Anglo Saxon"; "Old High German is High German from the middle of the 9th to the end of the 11th century"
6. (old, older) = old in experience; "an old offender"; "the older soldiers"
7. (erstwhile, former, old, onetime, quondam, sometime) = belonging to some prior time; "erstwhile friend"; "our former glory"; "the once capital of the state"; "her quondam lover"
8. (honest-to-god, honest-to-goodness, old, sure-enough) = (used informally especially for emphasis); "a real honest-to-god live cowboy"; "had us a high old time"; "went upriver to look at a sure-enough fish wheel"