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English to English adjective
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(used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age |  | Example: his mother is very old
a ripe old age
how old are you?
source: wordnet30
| 2 |
of long duration; not new | | Example: old tradition
old house
old wine
old country
old friendships
old money
source: wordnet30
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Not young; advanced far in years or life; having lived till toward the end of the ordinary term of living; as, an old man; an old age; an old horse; an old tree. | | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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(used for emphasis) very familiar | | Example: good old boy
same old story
source: wordnet30
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skilled through long experience | | Example: an old offender
the older soldiers
source: wordnet30
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belonging to some prior time | | Example: erstwhile friend
our former glory
the once capital of the state
her quondam lover
source: wordnet30
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(used informally especially for emphasis) | | Example: a real honest-to-god live cowboy
had us a high old time
went upriver to look at a sure-enough fish wheel
source: wordnet30
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of a very early stage in development | | Example: 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
source: wordnet30
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just preceding something else in time or order | | Example: the previous owner
my old house was larger
source: wordnet30 noun
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past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old') | | source: wordnet30
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Open country. | | source: webster1913
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