What does OLD mean?
Definitions for OLD
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Princeton's WordNet
oldadjective
past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old')
oldadjective
(used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age
"his mother is very old"; "a ripe old age"; "how old are you?"
oldadjective
of long duration; not new
"old tradition"; "old house"; "old wine"; "old country"; "old friendships"; "old money"
old(a)adjective
(used for emphasis) very familiar
"good old boy"; "same old story"
old, olderadjective
skilled through long experience
"an old offender"; "the older soldiers"
erstwhile(a), former(a), old, onetime(a), one-time(a), quondam(a), sometime(a)adjective
belonging to some prior time
"erstwhile friend"; "our former glory"; "the once capital of the state"; "her quondam lover"
honest-to-god, honest-to-goodness, old(a), sure-enough(a)adjective
(used informally especially for emphasis)
"a real honest-to-god live cowboy"; "had us a high old time"; "went upriver to look at a sure-enough fish wheel"
Oldadjective
of a very early stage in development
"Old English is also called Anglo Saxon"; "Old High German is High German from the middle of the 9th to the end of the 11th century"
previous(a), oldadjective
just preceding something else in time or order
"the previous owner"; "my old house was larger"
Wiktionary
oldnoun
People who are old; old beings.
oldnoun
The older generation.
oldadjective
Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time.
oldadjective
Of a living being, having lived for most of the expected years.
a wrinkled old man
oldadjective
Of a perishable item, having existed for most, or more than its shelf life.
An old loaf of bread.
oldadjective
Of an item that has been used and so is not new .
I find that an old toothbrush is good to clean the keyboard with.
oldadjective
Having existed or lived for the specified time.
oldadjective
Former, previous.
oldadjective
That is no longer in existence.
The footpath follows the route of an old railway line.
oldadjective
Obsolete; out-of-date.
That is the old way of doing things; now we do it this way.
oldadjective
Familiar.
When he got drunk and quarrelsome they just gave him the old heave-ho.
oldadjective
Tiresome.
Your constant pestering is getting old.
oldadjective
Said of subdued colors, particularly reds, pinks and oranges, as if they had faded over time.
oldadjective
A grammatical intensifier, often used in describing something positive.
We're having a good old time.
Etymology: ald, from aldaz, originally a participle form corresponding to Latin altus. Cognate with Dutch oud, Low German old, German alt, West Frisian âld, Scots auld.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
OLDadjective
Etymology: eald , Saxon; alt, German.
To old age since you your self aspire,
Let not old age disgrace my high desire. Philip Sidney.He wooes high and low, rich and poor, young and old. William Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Wind.
When Gardiner was sent over as embassador into France, with great pomp, he said unto an old acquaintance of his that came to take his leave of him, Now I am in my gloria patri. Yea, said his friend, and I hope, et nunc et semper. Or, replied the bishop, if it please the king my master, sicat erat in principio, a poor scholar of Cambridge again. William Camden, Remains.
The vine beareth more grapes when it is young; but grapes that make better wine when it is old; for that the juice is better concocted. Francis Bacon, Nat. History.
The Genoese are cunning, industrious, and inured to hardship; which was likewise the character of the old Ligurians. Joseph Addison, on Italy.
How old art thou? Not so young, Sir, to love a woman for singing; nor so old to doat on her for any thing. I have years on my back forty-eight. William Shakespeare, King Lear.
Plead you to me, fair dame, I know you not.
In Ephesus I am but two hours old,
As strange unto your town as to your talk. William Shakespeare.Any man that shall live to see thirty persons descended of his body alive together, and all above three years old, makes this feast, which is done at the cost of the state. Francis Bacon.
The Latian king, unless he shall submit,
Own his old promise, and his new forget,
Let him in arms the pow’r of Turnus prove. Dryd.He must live in danger of his house falling about his ears, and will find it cheaper to build it again from the ground in a new form; which may not be so convenient as the old. Jonathan Swift, Proj. for the Advan. of Relig.
Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, will they now commit whoredoms with her? Ezek. xxiii. 43.
Here will be old Utis; it will be an excellent stratagem. William Shakespeare, Henry IV. p. ii.
Here’s a knocking indeed; if a man were porter of hell gate, he should have old turning the key. William Shakespeare.
These things they cancel, as having been instituted in regard of occasions peculiar to the times of old, and as being now superfluous. Richard Hooker, b. v. s. 35.
Whether such virtue spent of old now fail’d
More angels to create. John Milton, P. Lost, b. ix.A land there is, Hesperia nam’d of old,
The soil is fruitful, and the men are bold;
Now call’d Italia, from the leader’s name. Dryden.In days of old there liv’d of mighty fame,
A valiant prince, and Theseus was his name. Dryd.
Wikipedia
Old
If you were looking for the Dexys Midnight Runners song called Old, see here."Old" is a song recorded by American heavy metal band Machine Head. It was released as a single in two different versions. The title track is taken from the 1994 album Burn My Eyes. It is the fourth track featured on the band's live album Hellalive, and the ninth track featured on the band's second live album Machine Fucking Head Live.
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old
Old is a term used to indicate something or someone's advanced age or considerable age in relation to the average lifespan or expected longevity. It can refer to objects, ideas, or living beings that have been in existence for a long time and have undergone significant wear, deterioration, or change due to the passage of time. The precise understanding of what constitutes being old may vary depending on the context and the subject matter involved.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Old
ōld, adj. advanced in years: having been long in existence: worn out: out of date, old-fashioned: ancient, former, antique, early: (coll.) great, high: having the age or duration of: long practised: sober, wise.—n. Old-clothes′man, one who buys cast-off garments.—v.i. Old′en, to grow old, to become affected by age.—adj. old, ancient.—adj. Old-fash′ioned, of a fashion like that used long ago: out of date: clinging to old things and old styles: with manners like those of a grown-up person (said of a child).—n. Old-fash′ionedness.—adjs. Old-fō′gyish, like an old fogy; Old-gen′tlemanly, characteristic of an old gentleman; Old′ish, somewhat old; Old′-light, denoting those of the Seceders from the Church of Scotland who continued to hold unchanged the principle of the connection between church and state—the position maintained by the first Seceders in 1733.—n. one of this body.—ns. Old-maid′hood, Old-maid′ism.—adj. Old-maid′ish, like the conventional old maid, prim.—ns. Old′ness; Old′ster (coll.), a man getting old: a midshipman of four years' standing, a master's mate.—adj. Old′-time, of or pertaining to times long gone by: of long standing: old-fashioned.—n. Old′-tim′er, one who has lived in a place or kept a position for a long time.—adjs. Old-wom′anish, like an old woman; Old′-world, belonging to earlier times, antiquated, old-fashioned.—n. the Eastern Hemisphere.—Old age, the later part of life; Old bachelor, an unmarried man somewhat advanced in years; Old English (see English): the form of black letter used by 16th-century English printers; Old gold, a dull gold colour like tarnished gold, used in textile fabrics; Old Harry, Nick, One, &c., the devil; Old Hundred, properly Old Hundredth, a famous tune set in England about the middle of the 16th century to Kethe's version of the 100th Psalm, marked 'Old Hundredth' in Tate and Brady's new version in 1696; Old maid, a woman who has not been married, and is past the usual age of marriage: a simple game played by matching cards from a pack from which a card (usually a queen) has been removed; Old man, unregenerate human nature: (coll.) one's father, guardian, or employer (usually with 'the'); Old Red Sandstone (see Sand); Old salt, an experienced sailor; Old school, of, or resembling, earlier days, old-fashioned; Old song, a mere trifle, a very small price; Old squaw, a sea-duck of the northern hemisphere—also Old wife; Old Style (often written with a date O.S.), the mode of reckoning time before 1752, according to the Julian calendar or year of 365¼ days; Old Testament (see Testament); Old Tom, a strong kind of English gin; Old wife, a prating old woman, or even a man: a chimney-cap for curing smoking.—Of old, long ago, in ancient times, or belonging to such. [A.S. eald; Dut. oud; Ger. alt.]
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Surnames Frequency by Census Records
OLD
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Old is ranked #24237 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Old surname appeared 1,035 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Old.
94.2% or 975 total occurrences were White.
2.5% or 26 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
1.3% or 14 total occurrences were of two or more races.
1.1% or 12 total occurrences were Black.
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British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'OLD' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #148
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'OLD' in Written Corpus Frequency: #218
Adjectives Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'OLD' in Adjectives Frequency: #4
Anagrams for OLD »
DLO
DOL
dol
LDO
Lod
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of OLD in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of OLD in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of OLD in a Sentence
I am too old for this, a couple of nights ago, it was raining.
Howard Stern several years ago:
We've got to cure AIDS so then we can go back to not wearing rubbers, those were the good old days.
I was born old and get younger every day. At present I am sixty years young.
It also includes the 50-, 60-year-old local Chinese living in a city who has never been outside China, whose adult children would buy these products.
The Battle of Gallipoli is truly a reminder that the Great War was truly a world war...It destroyed old empires and created new fissures, on this centenary occasion, it seems to me we must remember the heroism of both sides.
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Translations for OLD
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- ажәAbkhaz
- ouAfrikaans
- bielloAragonese
- مسن, كبير السن, قديمArabic
- əski, qoca, köhnəAzerbaijani
- ҡарт, биҙрәткән, иҫке, элекке, ялҡытҡанBashkir
- стары́Belarusian
- старBulgarian
- পুরোনো, প্রবীণBengali
- gran, antic, vell, tenirCatalan, Valencian
- starýCzech
- старъOld Church Slavonic, Church Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- ватӑChuvash
- henWelsh
- gammel, tidligereDanish
- altGerman
- xoxoEwe
- αρχαίος, τέως, παλιός, γηραιός, πρώην, ηλικιωμένοςGreek
- aĝi, malnova, jaraĝa, maljuna, oldaEsperanto
- antiguo, viejo, ex-, tener, anciano, deSpanish
- vana, endineEstonian
- zaharBasque
- کهنه, قبلی, ساله, قدیمی, کهن, پیر, سابق, مسن, دیرین, پیشین, کهنسالPersian
- -vuotias, vanha, ikäinen, entinenFinnish
- vieux, ancien, ex-, ça commence à bien faire, vieille, avoirFrench
- âldWestern Frisian
- d'aois, sean, ath-, aostaIrish
- aosda, aosmhor, seanScottish Gaelic
- velloGalician
- זָקֵן, בַּת, יָשָׁן, בֵּן, קודם, קָשִׁישׁHebrew
- बूढ़ा, पुरानाHindi
- öreg, régiHungarian
- ծեր, հին, անցած, պառավArmenian
- tua, lamaIndonesian
- anciena, olda, antiquaIdo
- gamallIcelandic
- vecchio, avereItalian
- 年老いた, 古い, 老いたJapanese
- tuwoJavanese
- ძველიGeorgian
- ескі, кәріKazakh
- ចាស់Khmer
- 오래되다, 먹었다, 낡다, 늙다, 나이들다Korean
- pîr, پیرهژن, پیر, kevn, پیرهمێرد, پێشو, کۆنKurdish
- эски, карыKyrgyz
- vetulus, annosus, vetus, senex, natus esse, ex, antiquusLatin
- ແກ່, ເກົ່າLao
- senasLithuanian
- vecs, sensLatvian
- tawhito, tahitoMāori
- има, стар, годиниMacedonian
- പഴയത്, പഴയMalayalam
- хуучин, хөгшинMongolian
- जुना, भुंडाMarathi
- lama, tua, bekasMalay
- qadima, qodma, xiħ, xjuħ, qadim, xiħaMaltese
- အို, ဟောင်းBurmese
- gammel, gammalNorwegian
- oudDutch
- gamal, gammalNorwegian Nynorsk
- gammelNorwegian
- sání, nááhaiNavajo, Navaho
- vièlhOccitan
- ਪੁਰਾਣਾ, ਬੁੱਢੇ, ਪੁਰਾਣੀ, ਬੁੱਢੀ, ਪੁਰਾਣੇ, ਬੁੱਢਾ, ਪੁਰਾਣੀਆਂ, ਬੁੱਢੀਆਂPanjabi, Punjabi
- mieć, staryPolish
- ter, velho, com, antigo, cansativo, usado, idoso, dePortuguese
- veglRomansh
- fost, bătrân, vechi, anticRomanian
- ста́рый, '', бы́вший, пре́жнийRussian
- वृद्धSanskrit
- стар, starSerbo-Croatian
- වයසක, පැරණි, නාකි, පරණSinhala, Sinhalese
- starý, bývalýSlovak
- stàrSlovene
- plak, vjetërAlbanian
- använd, gammal, före detta, åldrig, tidigare, ålderstigen, förlegad, utslitenSwedish
- mkongwe, ukaleSwahili
- பழையTamil
- ముసలి, పాత, మునుపటిTelugu
- пир, қадим, кӯҳна, қадимиTajik
- แก่, เก่า, ก่อนThai
- garry, köneTurkmen
- luma, dati, datingTagalog
- önceki, yaşında, yaşlı, eskiTurkish
- иске, картTatar
- قېرىUyghur, Uighur
- стари́йUkrainian
- بوڑھا, پرانیUrdu
- eski, qariUzbek
- già, chán, cũ, tuổi, cựuVietnamese
- vîWalloon
- אַלטYiddish
- 旧Chinese
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