Definitions for Old

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Old old

Spelling: [ohld]

IPA: /oʊld/

Old is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 18 anagrams from letters in Old (dlo).

Definitions for Old

noun

1. (used with a plural verb) old persons collectively (usually preceded by the):
2. a person or animal of a specified age or age group (used in combination):
3. old or former time, often time long past:

adjective

1. far advanced in the years of one's or its life:
2. of or relating to the latter part of the life or term of existence of a person or thing:
3. as if or appearing to be far advanced in years:
4. having lived or existed for a specified time:
5. having lived or existed as specified with relation to younger or newer persons or things:
6. having been aged for a specified time:
7. having been aged for a comparatively long time:
8. long known or in use:
9. overfamiliar to the point of tedium:
10. belonging to the past:
11. having been in existence since the distant past:
12. no longer in general use:
13. acquired, made, or in use by one prior to the acquisition, making, or use of something more recent:
14. of, relating to, or originating at an earlier period or date:
15. prehistoric; ancient:
16. (initial capital letter) (of a language) in its oldest known period, as attested by the earliest written records:
17. experienced:
18. of long standing; having been such for a comparatively long time:
19. (of colors) dull, faded, or subdued:
20. deteriorated through age or long use; worn, decayed, or dilapidated:
21. Physical Geography. (of landforms) far advanced in reduction by erosion or the like.
22. sedate, sensible, mature, or wise:
23. (used to indicate affection, familiarity, disparagement, or a personalization):
24. Informal. (used as an intensive) great; uncommon:
25. former; having been so formerly:

Origin of Old

before 900; Middle English; Old English eald, ald; cognate with Dutch old, German alt, Gothic altheis; akin to Old Norse ala to nourish

Examples for Old

You've been so devoted to her for three days that you've hardly bowed to old friends.

So here I am in my requisite Lululemon pants, grunting along to an old hip-hop song at a most ungodly hour.

Indeed, although he works here in the old town, he lives in the new part of the city where he walks his dog in the morning.

He plays an aging punk rocker and I play the drummer from his old band.

To borrow an old right-wing talking point, these people are angry no matter what we do.

Note: UNICOR uses its inmates for everything from call center operators to human demolishers of old computers.

"That contains the spirit of all prayer," said the old philosopher.

The old man read it and for a time mused himself into seeming oblivion.

She was in a box with two men—one old and one young—and an older woman.

We met the son and the old man at one of their mines yesterday.