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ADJECTIVE old COMPARATIVE older/elder SUPERLATIVE oldest/eldest
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old English

Meaning old meaning

What does old mean?
Definitions in simple English

old

If someone or something is old, they are not young; they have been in existence for a long time. An old man has gray hair. How old someone is, is their age. "Ashley, how old are you?" "I'm only 16 years old."

old

(used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age his mother is very old a ripe old age how old are you? of long duration; not new old tradition old house old wine old country old friendships old money (used for emphasis) very familiar good old boy same old story (= older) skilled through long experience an old offender the older soldiers past times (especially in the phrase 'in days of old') (= previous) just preceding something else in time or order the previous owner my old house was larger (= honest-to-god, 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 (= erstwhile, former, quondam) belonging to some prior time erstwhile friend our former glory the once capital of the state her quondam lover

Old

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

Synonyms old synonyms

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Old English » English

ancient rusty primaeval long-ago

Topics old topics

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Simple sentences

You are not old enough to go swimming by yourself.
You're old enough to know better.
Football is an old game.
The old woman fell and could not get up.
The old lady will often wait for her son in vain at the station.
The old man is blind in one eye.
The old man drew a large crowd around him by his music.
The old man left a large fortune to his wife.
This old house is made of wood.
Are you ten years old?
Few people live to be ninety years old.
There are many old Indian legends.
An old friend of mine visited yesterday.
I have an old bicycle.
How old are you?
He was a benevolent old man who volunteered to mow his neighbors' lawns for free.
You're never too old to learn.
One is never too old to learn.
No one is too old to learn.
No man is so old he cannot learn.
No one is so old but he can learn.
Nobody is too old to learn.
You will never be too old to learn.
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
He died at a very old age.
He's an old timer.
He's an old hand.
I am too old for this world.
You could count to ten when you were two years old.
You're giving me the same old line.
You are young. I, on the contrary, am very old.

Movie subtitles

Did you think I'll get tricked? Do you really think I was going to get tricked by you old man!
I'm going to you old man!
Always saying you're going to die. Its getting so old.
London's old, patched-up city walls extended a paltry three miles.
For centuries, the old spice route ran from the Indian Ocean over land across the Arabian peninsula, into the Ottoman Empire, and then from Venice into Europe.
That means that the lord mayor, the sheriffs, the city council, the freemen, the Iiverymen and the aldermen are all more than 800 years old, making this the world's oldest autonomous commercial institution.
The old headquarters of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank used to be described as the most luxurious building between the Suez canal and the Bering Strait.
When I was nine years old, my family took a trip.
There's a Klingon here and a Romulan there and there's slanty eyes and, you know, big old brains and so on.
It was like something a seven year old would tell me.
I'm gonna move into Victoria's old bed.
Ogdee is my old friend from high school.
You, old man..
You old men! Shame on you!
We do see the old main building of the radio station and a few other buildings.
The sly old dog!
Arranging marriages is for old women.
Go see old Zara for a love potion.
I'm old.
Young or old, but rich. You're pretty, you'll get your pick.
Ishmael. He's almost a year old.
It's an old tradition.
I'm old now.
Your old mother. knows.
Then you'll be an old maid.
Big news, old pal.
We spoke about you and old times.
My old dream had finally come true!
Would you mind talking to me as if I'm five years old?
Like a five-year-old, please.
The top of season one, Allison, you know, she's living a 17-year-old girl's life.
Around 50 years of age. At the 5 year wedding anniversary. a 5 week old fetus, is in here.
Honey. Honey. Will I, who get confused about your name being Seok Cheol or Cheol Seok, because I'm old, be able to have it (the baby)?
When I, the old one, have it safely, you, the young one, raise it.
Finally we've met, old man Jade Emperor.
Old man. the Jade Emperor?
That. I'll think about it when the time is up. Those Old men, do you think I can't?
Damn, you old men!
How could this happen, Jade Emperor, old man?
Hey old man!

News and current affairs

Men and women had not risked their lives simply to return to the old days of class privilege and social deprivation.
And, perversely, American neo-conservatives have transformed the internationalism of the old left by seeking to impose a democratic world order by US military force.
Almost everyone agreed that the old paradigm of neoclassical economics was broken, but there was no agreement on what can replace it.
WAGENINGEN, NETHERLANDS - Born in 1957, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is now more than 50 years old, and the European Commission is proposing what it calls a health check for its middle-aged child.
But this is possible only by resuscitating - and updating - an old institution of the international community: a confederation of states.
Kostunica's election as President of Yugoslavia amounts to an incomplete revolution: many of the old guard are still in place.
When I was seven years old, in 1960, my grandmother Angelica opened my eyes to the meaning of 8 May 1945, the day when Nazi Germany surrendered and World War II ended in Europe.
Why, then, is it even necessary to outlaw the old bulbs?
To this old brew, new ingredients have been added, notably the most rapid change in a nation's fiscal posture the world has probably ever seen.
As the old saying goes: Don't count your chickens before they hatch.
Unlike economic globalization, however, it remains to be seen whether this new, fast-paced style of soccer will prevail (after all, the young blood of Spain lost to the Old Boys of France).
I recall that fateful Saturday afternoon with utter clarity, strolling through Kiev with my six-year-old daughter, oblivious to the danger.
Blindly pumping the current bail-out billions into old industries and exhausted economic models will be throwing good money after bad while mortgaging our children's future.
Though Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic revolution in 1979 disrupted Israel's old alliance with Iran, the two countries continued to conduct business with America's blessing.
The old Cold War world order was based on the nuclear arms race between the two superpowers, the United States and Soviet Union.
Some see this hostility to Israel as camouflaging old-fashioned anti-Semitism.
The break with communism and reunification of Europe is now almost two decades old.
Clear-cutting of old growth forests in the mountains bordering Pakistan may prove as problematic.
At the current rate, Afghanistan's old growth forest could vanish within a decade.
New groups constantly emerge from the ruins of old ones.
At home, he still ranks first in popularity among the country's heads of state, kindling nostalgia like a popular old record - a corollary to people's frustration and anger at the current government of President Lee Myung-bak.
It did not matter that these youthful hawkers, some no more than seven or eight years old, were often arrested, beaten, and locked up for weeks, occasionally months.
Efforts to do so usually ended disastrously. As someone born in the old Soviet Union, I know firsthand the despair and brutality of such attempts.