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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.

He's four years older than I am.

He's a good eight years older than me.

My parents, now residing in Florida, would attend the ceremony along with my older brother and his family who would fly in from Seattle, Oregon.

She was relieved when an older gentleman cut in.

I had a brother Bobbie, ten years older than me.

They were much older, much stronger than he.

Do you remember the older brother?

Younger people have less wealth than older ones, on average.

The mating bond of the Immortals and deities and the blood bond of the demons were the two oldest bonds, unbreakable under the Immortal Code and from the laws older than the Code.

Cleary looked a lot older.

There was one such king who had four sons, Ethelbald, Ethelbert, Ethelred, and Alfred. The three older boys were sturdy, half-grown lads; the youngest, Alfred, was a slender, fair-haired child.

Many of the villages of Mesopotamia are built of second-hand bricks of a very good quality, obtained from the ruins of Babylon, and the cement on them is older and probably harder still.

It is an antique style, older than Greek or Egyptian.

He proceeded instantly to the forest for wood, being resolved that it should not be made of unsuitable material; and as he searched for and rejected stick after stick, his friends gradually deserted him, for they grew old in their works and died, but he grew not older by a moment.

They talked to me of the age of the wine and the fame of the vintage; but I thought of an older, a newer, and purer wine, of a more glorious vintage, which they had not got, and could not buy.

There's one female older.

And you're older than that?

When I was a little older I felt the need of some means of communication with those around me, and I began to make simple signs which my parents and friends readily understood; but it often happened that I was unable to express my thoughts intelligibly, and at such times I would give way to my angry feelings utterly....

Spencer was nearly ten years older than her, but maybe she liked older men.

I could understand why he would be chasing her, but if I'd have known she'd go for a guy older than me...

His older brothers were quite willing that he should go to sea.

The only young people remaining in the drawing room, not counting the young lady visitor and the countess' eldest daughter (who was four years older than her sister and behaved already like a grown-up person), were Nicholas and Sonya, the niece.

Now I'm just an older dirty old man.

Xander's is older than he is.

The license plate was from Missouri and Howie managed to recite the numbers to us together with a detailed description of the car, an older Buick.

If she closed her eyes, she would have guessed him to be no older than her brother.

An older man with dementia left to rot and finally die in an old folks' home.

There are three bonds that are older than time.

Billy Langstrom, behind the wheel of a red Jeep similar to but older than Deans', honked from across the street.

When we married, I was twenty-eight and he was fifty-two—nearly twice my age—two years older than my father!

The vehicle, older than Fred, sounded better than Dean's Jeep.

If they don't belong to Josh Mulligan, they could be years older than the 1960's.

Dean told her Donnie was a guest at Bird Song and explained the lad, only slightly older than Martha, did not speak.

I fought side by side with his older brother years ago at the end of the war; I know the type of honor that runs in his family.

Toby's heart somersaulted in his breast, and he tried hard to reach the depths of the powers that would be his when he was just a little older.

These were indeed but a few years older.

These children were older in years, it is true, than the baby who lisps, "Papa kiss baby--pretty," and fills out her meaning by pointing to her new dress; but their ability to understand and use language was no greater.

An older, harmless-looking man with white hair and beautiful emerald eyes stood near the door, holding out a phone.

The Originals have a truce that's older than all of us combined.

The ancient megalith pulsed with power older than that of her father's.

One was of medium height and slender, an older man with sharp green eyes the color of forest moss who seemed out of place in the middle of the room.

That subjected them to all kinds of trouble—not just a spanking, but police involvement, assuming they were older.

But Fitzgerald had to be older than forty—he certainly looked it—a fact easily checked on his election application.

They couldn't keep the foal as a stud, but she might be able to trade it for a mare when it was older.

There were six students around five-years-old and an older boy on the verge of puberty sitting around a beautiful blond, who was reading a book out loud.

Deities are way older and more powerful.

I created you and broke laws older than time to do it!

Kris chuckled, aware his older brother could wait him out.

She found a narrow, rocky road and hopped from rock to road, surprised to see an older man leading a donkey pulling a cart ahead of her.

A small, older woman in severe grey opened the door.