Word Finder - old

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(with the, invariable plural only) People who are old; old beings; the older generation, taken as a group.

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A civilised society should always look after the old in the community.

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(in combination) One of a specified age.

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when he was an eight-year-old ; a 62-year-old should

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A person older than oneself, especially an adult in relation to a teenager.

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(most often plural) One's parents.

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I had to sneak out to meet my girlfriend and tell the olds I was going to the library.

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Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time.

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an old abandoned building;  an old friend

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Having been used and thus no longer new or unused.

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I find that an old toothbrush is good to clean the keyboard with.

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Having existed or lived for the specified time.

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How old are they? She’s five years old and he's seven. We also have a young teen and a two-year-old child.

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(heading) Of an earlier time.

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Tiresome after prolonged repetition.

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Your constant pestering is getting old.

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Said of subdued colors, particularly reds, pinks and oranges, as if they had faded over time.

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A grammatical intensifier, often used in describing something positive. (Mostly in idioms like good old, big old and little old, any old and some old.)

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We're having a good old time. My next car will be a big old SUV.  My wife makes the best little old apple pie in Texas.

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Excessive, abundant.

My parents used to listen to those old songs.

The old woman spoke to one of the younger women.

It is an old dream.

She was becoming a bitter old maid.

And the words of the old minister came true.

How old is he?

I'll beat Old Prickly, all right.

What's the point of living to a ripe old age if you can't enjoy yourself?

He was a very little boy, but before he was three years old he could read quite well.

It shall be on your family's behalf that I'll start my apprenticeship as old maid.

When Aesop was about twenty years old his master lost a great deal of money and was obliged to sell his slaves.

The car was six years old now, but it was in good shape and still had low mileage.

They would all get together and wash her old car, winding up in a gleeful water fight.

Come on down, Old Dan Tucker.

My father lived to be ninety years old, and he never went on no fat diet.

All that July the old prince was exceedingly active and even animated.

Six-month old Dandy nickered to his mother, but Casper was busy talking to Princess and Dawn.

At least at this point, the old house was paying for itself.

The car had been shut up long enough that it smelled of old upholstery.

In Richmond, Virginia, one Saturday morning, an old man went into the market to buy something.

Benjamin Franklin lived to be a very old man, but he never forgot that lesson.

Most of the old men answered that they did not know of any such person.

I love old cars.

It's old, but still in good condition.

Some might be that old, but to remember back then, they'd be more'n ninety.

Watch, and as soon as the soldiers are ready to start, hang a lantern in the tower of the old North Church.

When the old bell-wether at the head rattles his bell, the mountains do indeed skip like rams and the little hills like lambs.

She didn't like putting her mother's old China in the dishwasher.

At ten years old, Jonathan was almost as tall as she was.

An old Cat was in a fair way to kill all the Mice in the barn.

When they reached Mr. Johnson's house, the old man politely handed him the turkey and turned to go.

The human race is interested in these experiments, though a few old women who are incapacitated for them, or who own their thirds in mills, may be alarmed.

One of the old men nearest to him looked round, but his attention was immediately diverted by an exclamation at the other side of the table.

I'm old and weak and this is what you wanted.

Maybe Nick and Angela would like to go with her to visit the old place in the mountains after she graduated.

It makes me feel old.

A blue haired old lady with a walker and her mate hauling an oxygen tank looked at me as If I was the Boston strangler.

Just then Dorothy, who had risen early and heard the voices of the animals, ran out to greet her old friends.

It's the same old wolf that has been skulking around here all winter.

So, when he was eighteen years old, he ran away from his pleasant home and went to sea.

On the day appointed, forty gray- bearded, honest old men stood before the caliph.

By the midpoint of the twentieth century, America's dreamers were preoccupied with the future—and not just any old future, but the great and glorious future that seemed inevitable.

He basically followed old agriculture; he planted a lot of seed and hoped for rain.

He has filled the old skins of dogma with the new wine of love, and shown men what it is to believe, live and be free.

Poor old Nancy is growing old and very feeble.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.

A man who has at length found something to do will not need to get a new suit to do it in; for him the old will do, that has lain dusty in the garret for an indeterminate period.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

Old Rostov could not tell his wife of what had passed without tears, and at once consented to Petya's request and went himself to enter his name.

Princess Mary noticed to her surprise that during this illness the old prince not only excluded her from his room, but did not admit Mademoiselle Bourienne either.