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Old   /oʊld/   Listen
Old

adjective
(compar. older; superl. oldest)
1.
(used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age.  "A ripe old age" , "How old are you?"  Antonym: young.
2.
Of long duration; not new.  "Old house" , "Old wine" , "Old country" , "Old friendships" , "Old money"  Antonym: new.
3.
(used for emphasis) very familiar.  "Same old story"
4.
Skilled through long experience.  Synonym: older.  "The older soldiers"
5.
Belonging to some prior time.  Synonyms: erstwhile, former, one-time, onetime, quondam, sometime.  "Our former glory" , "The once capital of the state" , "Her quondam lover"
6.
(used informally especially for emphasis).  Synonyms: honest-to-god, honest-to-goodness, sure-enough.  "Had us a high old time" , "Went upriver to look at a sure-enough fish wheel"
7.
Of a very early stage in development.  "Old High German is High German from the middle of the 9th to the end of the 11th century"
8.
Just preceding something else in time or order.  Synonym: previous.  "My old house was larger"
noun
1.
Past times (especially in the phrase 'in days of old').



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"Old" Quotes from Famous Books



... the slow sure records grow. I wish that old Copernicus could see How, through his truth, that once dispelled a dream, Broke the false axle-trees of heaven, destroyed All central certainty in the universe, And seemed to dwarf mankind, the spirit of man Laid hold on law, ...
— Watchers of the Sky • Alfred Noyes
... no wish to be President. He was too old, he said (he was only fifty-seven) and besides he was not even a statesman but a soldier. The people, however, would not listen to him. "We cannot do without you," they said. "There is no use framing a new government if the best ...
— This Country Of Ours • H. E. Marshall Author: Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
... last year's car. Poor old Pops would give it to me now if I asked him—but it's just as well to have it away in case Moms could ever make him change his mind, only of course she perfectly well can't do anything of the sort. ...
— Bunker Bean • Harry Leon Wilson
... cried little Anna, "and we have no one to act for us; my old doll cannot, for she is a fright, and my new one cannot, for she must ...
— Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen • Hans Christian Andersen
... possible as Mr. Sowerby tried with Miss Dunstable. It was better for him, undoubtedly, to have the lady for a creditor than the duke, seeing that it was possible for him to live as a tenant in his own old house under the lady's reign. But this he found to be a sad enough life, after all that ...
— Framley Parsonage • Anthony Trollope


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