Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word OLD

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Definitions of OLD

1. Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time.
2. Having been used and thus no longer new or unused.
3. Having existed or lived for the specified time.
4. Tiresome after prolonged repetition.
5. Said of subdued colors, particularly reds, pinks and oranges, as if they had faded over time.
6. (heading) Of an earlier time.
7. A grammatical intensifier, often used in describing something positive, and combined with another adjective.
8. (obsolete) Excessive, abundant.
9. (with the, invariable plural only) People who are old; old beings; the older generation, taken as a group.
10. (slang) A person older than oneself, especially an adult in relation to a teenager.
11. (informal, of a person) Indicating affection and familiarity.
12. (slang, most often plural) One's parents.
13. (AU, uncountable) A typically dark-coloured lager brewed by the traditional top-fermentation method.
14. (publishing, linguistics) Initialism of Oxford Latin Dictionary.
15. (internet) Abbreviation of online dating.
16. Designed for a mature audience; unsuitable for children below a certain age.
17. A surname.
18. A village and cpar in, West Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, England previously in, Daventry (OS grid ref SP7873).

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Examples of Using OLD in a Sentence

• Its name is Latin for "water-carrier" or "cup-carrier", and its old astronomical symbol is 20px (♒︎), a representation of water.
• The museum is located in the Strykjärn (Clothes iron), a former weaving mill in the old industrial area on the Motala ström river in the city centre of Norrköping.
• The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans, that separates the old world from the new world.
• It rises at about 67°N latitude and 171°E longitude in the Anadyr Highlands, near the headwaters of the Maly Anyuy, flows southwest receiving the waters of the rivers Yablon and Yeropol, turns east around the Shchuchy Range and passes Markvovo and the old site of Anadyrsk, turns north and east and receives the Mayn from the south, thereby encircling the Lebediny Zakaznik, turns northeast to receive the Belaya from the north in the Parapol-Belsky Lowlands, then past Ust-Belaya it turns southeast into the Anadyr Lowlands past the Ust-Tanyurer Zakaznik and receives the Tanyurer from the north.
• Alfonso's father died when he was two years old and he remained under the guardianship of his cousin, William Jordan, Count of Cerdagne, until he was five.
• Later, on Crete, Titus appointed presbyters (elders) in every city and remained there into his old age, dying in Gortyna.
• For the average human child between 8 and 14 years old, each day the approximate loss is 20 to 30 billion cells.
• The old city of Aarau is situated on a rocky outcrop at a narrowing of the Aare river valley, at the southern foot of the Jura mountains.
• The creed most likely originated in 5th-century Gaul as a development of the Old Roman Symbol: the old Latin creed of the 4th century.

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