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Adj. | 1. | old - (used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age; especially not young; often used as a combining form to indicate an age as specified as in `a week-old baby'; "an old man's eagle mind"--William Butler Yeats; "his mother is very old"; "a ripe old age"; "how old are you?" |
2. | old - of long duration; not new; "old tradition"; "old house"; "old wine"; "old country"; "old friendships"; "old money" Antonyms: new - not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered; "a new law"; "new cars"; "a new comet"; "a new friend"; "a new year"; "the New World" | |
3. | old - of an earlier time; "his old classmates" | |
4. | old - (used for emphasis) very familiar; "good old boy"; "same old story" | |
5. | old - lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new; "moth-eaten theories about race" Synonyms: stale, moth-eaten | |
6. | old - just preceding something else in time or order; "the previous owner"; "my old house was larger" Synonyms: previous | |
7. | 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" | |
8. | old - old in experience; "an old offender"; "the older soldiers" Synonyms: older | |
9. | old - 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" |