old
adj 1: (used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively
long time or attained a specific age; especially not
young; "an old man's eagle mind"- William Butler
Yeats; "his mother is very old"; "a ripe old age";
"how old are you?"; often used as a combining form to
indicate an age as specified as in "a week-old infant"
[ant: {young}]
2: of long duration; not new; "old tradition"; "old house";
"old wine"; "old country"; "old friendships"; "old money"
[ant: {new}]
3: of an earlier time; "his old classmates"
4: (used for emphasis) very familiar; "good old boy"; "same old
story" [syn: {old(a)}]
5: lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new;
"moth-eaten theories about race" [syn: {stale}, {moth-eaten}]
6: (linguistics) 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" [syn: {Old}]
7: old in experience; "an old offender"; "the older soldiers"
[syn: {older}]
8: 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" [syn: {honest-to-god},
{honest-to-goodness}, {old(a)}, {sure-enough(a)}]
9: just preceding something else in time or order; "the
previous owner"; "my old house was larger" [syn: {previous(a)}]
n : past times (especially in the phrase "in days of old")