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白头偕老
bái​tóu​xié​lǎo

to grow old together

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
  1. 白头 白頭 bái​tóu
    old age
    old age; used metonymically to refer to a person of advanced age
  2. 偕老 xié​lǎo
    to grow old together
    (literary) for a husband and wife to live together for a lifetime until old age; often used in the idiom 白头偕老 bái​tóu​xié​lǎo