Definitions
of old
1. [adj] - of an earlier time 2. [adj] - lacking originality or spontaneity 3. [adj] - (used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age 4. [adj] - of long duration 5. [adj] - old in experience 6. [adj] - (linguistics) of a very early stage in development 7. [n] - past times (especially in the phrase"in days of old")
Quotes
- Example use of the word old1. Old English is also called Anglo Saxon 2. Old High German is High German from the middle of the 9th to the end of the 11th century 3. an old offender 4. the older soldiers 5. not new 6. old tradition 7. old house 8. old wine 9. old country 10. old friendships 11. old money 12. especially not young 13. often used as a combining form to indicate an age as specified as in `a week-old baby' 14. an old man's eagle mind--William Butler Yeats 15. his mother is very old 16. a ripe old age 17. how old are you? 18. no longer new 19. moth-eaten theories about race 20. his old classmates
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