white beard

Sage's facial feature

A white beard is a beard that has turned white or gray with age.

By extension, a whitebeard (one word) is an old man, especially one viewed as wise or venerable: The whitebeards on the council had seen it all before.

The term evokes elderly sages, village elders, or wizardly figures in fantasy.

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elderly · old man · grandfather · gray · silver · whiskers · Gandalf · patriarch · wise · ancient · hoary · snowy · bristly · flowing · long · bushy · trimmed · Father Time

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age/life stage

white beardbaby face

Youthful, innocent appearance

peach fuzz · five o'clock shadow · fresh-faced · young buck

facial hair presence/development

white beardclean-shaven

Having no beard

beardless · stubble · scruff · patchy beard

Family

white, beard, whiter, whitest, whiten, whiteness, whitening, whitish, beards

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G