Old

Adjective

 * 1) Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time.
 * an old abandoned building
 * an old friend
 * 1) Of a living being, having lived for most of the expected years.
 * a wrinkled old man
 * 1) Of a perishable item, having existed for most, or more than its shelf life
 * An old loaf of bread.
 * 1) Of an item that has been used and so is not new unused.
 * I find that an old toothbrush is good to clean the keyboard with.
 * 1) Having existed or lived for the specified time.
 * How old are they? She’s five years old and he’s seven. We also have a young teen and a two-year-old.
 * My great-grandfather lived to be a hundred and one years old.
 * 1) Former, previous.
 * My new car is not as good as my old one.
 * a school reunion for Old Etonians
 * 1) * 1994, Michael Grumley, Life Drawing
 * But over my old life, a new life had formed.
 * 1) That is no longer in existence
 * The footpath follows the route of an old railway line.
 * 1) Obsolete; out-of-date.
 *  That is the old way of doing things; now we do it this way.
 * 1) Familiar.
 * When he got drunk and quarrelsome they just gave him the old heave-ho.
 * 1) Tiresome.
 * Your constant pestering is getting old.
 * 1) Said of subdued colors, particularly reds, pinks and oranges, as if they had faded over time.
 * 2) A grammatical intensifier, often used in describing something positive.
 * We're having a good old time.

Synonyms

 * ancient, long in the tooth
 * aged, ageing / aging, elderly, long in the tooth
 * aged, of age
 * erstwhile, ex-, former, one-time, past
 * antiquated, obsolete (words)
 * See also Thesaurus:old

Antonyms

 * brand new, fresh, new
 * young
 * : current, latest, new

Derived terms

 * age-old
 * old age
 * old-age
 * Old Akkadian
 * Old Armenian
 * Old Assyrian
 * old as the hills
 * Old Babylonian
 * Old Blighty
 * Old Bulgarian
 * Old Church Slavic
 * Old Church Slavonic
 * old college try
 * old country
 * Old Czech
 * Old Dutch
 * Old Egyptian
 * Old English
 * old fart
 * old-fashioned
 * old flame
 * Old Flemish
 * old franc
 * Old Franconian
 * Old Frankish
 * Old French


 * Old Frisian
 * Old Glory
 * old gold
 * old growth
 * old guard
 * old hand
 * old hat
 * Old High German
 * Old Icelandic
 * oldies
 * Old Indic
 * Old Indo-Aryan
 * Old Ionic
 * Old Iranian
 * Old Irish
 * old lace
 * old lady
 * Old Latin
 * Old Low Franconian
 * Old Low Frankish
 * Old Low German
 * old maid
 * old man
 * old money
 * Old Nick
 * Old Norse


 * Old North French
 * Old Norwegian
 * old penny
 * Old Persian
 * Old Provençal
 * Old Prussian
 * old regime
 * Old Russian
 * old salt
 * old saw
 * Old Saxon
 * Old Scandinavian
 * old school
 * Old Slavic
 * Old Slavonic
 * old sweat
 * Old Testament
 * old-time
 * old-timer
 * Old Welsh
 * old woman
 * Old World
 * old-world
 * same old same old
 * same old story

Noun
(usually used as plural)


 * 1) People who are old; old beings.
 * 2) The older generation.

Adverbs for Old
genuinely; unquestionably; decrepitly; incredibly; truly; apparently; evidently; obviously; deceptively; smartly; graciously; genteelly; absurdly; beautifully; proudly; valuably; unbelievably.

Thesaurus
abandoned, abjured, adult, advanced, advanced in life, advanced in years, age-old, aged, ageless, along in years, ancient, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, archaic, auld, big, blase, bygone, constant, continuing, cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, dated, dateless, demode, deserted, discontinued, disused, done with, early, elderly, enduring, erstwhile, established, experienced, firm, fore, former, getting on, gray, gray with age, gray-haired, gray-headed, grown, grown old, grown-up, hoar, hoary, immemorial, inveterate, knowing, late, lifelong, long-lived, marriable, marriageable, mature, matured, maturescent, not born yesterday, not worth saving, nubile, obsolescent, obsolete, of age, of marriageable age, of old, of yore, old as Methuselah, old as history, old as time, old-fashioned, old-time, old-timey, olden, oldfangled, on the shelf, once, onetime, out, out of use, out-of-date, outdated, outmoded, outworn, overage, passe, past, past use, patriarchal, pensioned off, perennial, perpetual, practical, practiced, prehistoric, previous, primeval, primitive, prior, quondam, recent, relinquished, renounced, resigned, retired, ripe, ripened, sagacious, seasoned, senectuous, skilled, solid, sometime, sophisticated, staying, steady, superannuate, superannuated, superseded, then, timeless, timeworn, traditional, tried, tried and true, venerable, versed, vet, veteran, whilom, white, white with age, white-bearded, white-crowned, white-haired, world-wise, worldly, worldly-wise, worn-out, wrinkled, wrinkly, years old

Etymology
ald, from, originally a participle form corresponding to Latin altus. Cognate with Dutch oud, German alt, West Frisian âld, Scots auld.

Adjective

 * American Sign Language:
 * Arabic: قديم
 * Aragonese: biello
 * Armenian: հին
 * Basque: zahar
 * Belarusian: стары
 * Bengali:
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian: стар
 * Burmese: ဟောင်း
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 舊, 旧, 古老
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Ewe: xoxo
 * Finnish:
 * French:, vielle
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek: (paliós),  (archaíos)
 * Hebrew: ישן
 * Hindi: पुराना
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: anciena
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 古い
 * Khmer: ចាស់
 * Korean: 낡다, 오래되다
 * Kurdish: ,
 * Latgalian: ,


 * Latin: ,
 * Latvian: sens, vecs
 * Lithuanian: senas
 * Malayalam: പഴയ (pazhaya), പഴയത് (pazhayathu)
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan: vièlh
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Old English: ,
 * Persian:, دیرین, قدیمی
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romani:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: vegl
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: sean, aosda, aosmhor
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman: star
 * Sinhalese: පැරණි
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili: ,
 * Swedish: använd, förlegad,, utsliten
 * Tagalog:
 * Telugu: పాత (paata)
 * Thai: เก่า
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: старий
 * Urdu: پرانی
 * Vietnamese: cũ
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:
 * Zazaki:


 * Albanian:
 * American Sign Language:
 * Arabic: كبير السن, مسن
 * Aragonese: biello
 * Armenian: ծեր,
 * Belarusian: стары
 * Bengali:, প্রবীণ
 * Bosnian:
 * Catalan: vell, gran
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 年老, 老年
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Middle High German:
 * Greek: γηραιός (giraiós), ηλικιωμένος (ilikioménos)
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hiligaynon:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido: olda
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Javanese:
 * Khmer: ចាស់
 * Korean:, 나이들다


 * Kurdish: (man),  (woman), pîr,
 * Latin:, , , annosus
 * Latvian: vecs
 * Lithuanian: senas
 * Malayalam: പഴയ (pazhaya), പഴയത് (pazhayathu)
 * Marathi: भुंडा
 * Norwegian:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Old English: ,
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romani:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: vegl
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman: star
 * Slovak: ;
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili: ,
 * Swedish:, åldrig, ålderstigen
 * Telugu: ముసలి (musali)
 * Thai: แก่
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: старий
 * Urdu: بوڑھا
 * Uyghur: قېرى
 * Vietnamese: già
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:
 * Zazaki:


 * Armenian: անցած (anc'aç)
 * Bosnian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 前 (qián)
 * Czech:
 * Danish: tidligere
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:, τέως
 * Hebrew: קודם
 * Irish: ,
 * Korean: 오래되다 (orae-doeda)
 * Kurdish: (ya/yê) berê,
 * Latin: antiquus, ex
 * Norwegian:


 * Persian: پیشین
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ; ,
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman: star
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ; sometimes with people
 * Swahili: ,
 * Swedish:, före detta
 * Tagalog:
 * Telugu: మునుపటి (munupaTi)
 * Turkish:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:


 * Bosnian:
 * Catalan: translated by tenir followed by the length of time
 * She’s five years old — Ella té cinc anys
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 歲, 岁 (suì)
 * I am five years old - 我五歲, 我五岁(wǒ wǔ suì)
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: translated by avoir followed by the length of time
 * She’s five years old — Elle a cinq ans
 * a five-year-old car — une voiture qui a cinq ans, une voiture de cinq ans
 * German:
 * Hebrew: בֵּן (ben), בַּת (bat)
 * She’s five years old — הִיא בַּת חָמֵש שָׁנִים
 * a five-year-old car — מְכוֹנִית בַּת חָמֵש שָׁנִים
 * Irish: d'aois (of age)
 * She’s five years old — Tá sí cúig bhliana d’aois
 * Italian: translated by avere followed by the length of time
 * She’s five years old — Ha cinque anni
 * a five-year-old car — una macchina che ha cinque anni


 * Korean: 먹었다 (meogeotda)
 * Latin: natus esse
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian:
 * Polish: + number + lata/lat
 * Russian: (dative case) ему лет
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman: star
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * (e.g., I know his five-year-old daughter = Conozco a su hija que tiene cinco años)
 * Swahili: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: ,
 * Turkish: five years old = 5 yaşında
 * West Frisian:


 * French:
 * German:


 * Hiligaynon:


 * Simplified: 过时的 (guòshí de)
 * Traditional: 過時的 (guòshí de)
 * : malnova
 * : ancian
 * : (fe)
 * : (pir) (1),  (ghadimi)
 * : (pir) (1),  (ghadimi)

Anagrams

 * DLO, DOL, dol, LDO, Lod

Verb

 * 1) to solve
 * 2) to untie

Derived terms

 * felold
 * megold
 * oldat
 * oldódik
 * oldoz