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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?"

2.

Of long duration; not new. "Old house" , "Old wine" , "Old country" , "Old friendships" , "Old money"

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

... ministrations had been. Even after the worst was over, if I but moved, he was at my bedside in a moment. Certainly no nurse could have surpassed him. I could bear no one to touch me but him: from any one else I dreaded torture; and my medicine was administered to the very moment by my own old watch, which had been brought to do its duty at ...

— Wilfrid Cumbermede • George MacDonald

... not broken down the barrier that his sojourn in Japan had raised. She understood him no better than on the day of his arrival in Paris. He had been uniformly thoughtful and affectionate but had never reverted to the old Barry whom she had known so well. He had, as it were, retired within himself. He lived his life apart, with them but not of them, daily carrying through the arduous work he set himself with a dogged determination in which ...

— The Shadow of the East • E. M. Hull

... you, Henry D.?" she urged him indignantly, "do you want to take that fat old tiresome lady around our nice mountain? I don't b'lieve you do. You can be called 'girlie' if you want to—I don't. She is so hot and she creaks so when she walks! I had ...

— While Caroline Was Growing • Josephine Daskam Bacon

... A few old men, makating, are thought to be able to address the spirits with greater probability of success than the others; but they do not stand in the same relation to the spirit world as do the mabalian of the Bagobo. The nearest approach to that class ...

— The Wild Tribes of Davao District, Mindanao - The R. F. Cummings Philippine Expedition • Fay-Cooper Cole

... But I am sure you do not. You are not one to think evil, as I take it, of any body, much less of him whom you love. When he saw me again, free as I am, and when I saw him, thinking him also to be free, was it strange that some memory of old days should come back upon us? But the fault, if fault ...

— The Claverings • Anthony Trollope

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