'old' definitions:
Definition of 'old'
(from WordNet)
adjective
(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?" [ant: immature, young]
adjective
Of long duration; not new; "old tradition"; "old house"; "old wine"; "old country"; "old friendships"; "old money" [ant: new]
adjective
(used for emphasis) very familiar; "good old boy"; "same old story"
adjective
Skilled through long experience; "an old offender"; "the older soldiers" [syn: old, older]
adjective
Belonging to some prior time; "erstwhile friend"; "our former glory"; "the once capital of the state"; "her quondam lover" [syn: erstwhile(a), former(a), old, onetime(a), one- time(a), quondam(a), sometime(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" [syn: honest-to-god, honest-to-goodness, old(a), sure-enough(a)]
adjective
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"
adjective
Just preceding something else in time or order; "the previous owner"; "my old house was larger" [syn: previous(a), old]
noun
Past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old')
Synonyms of 'old'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abandoned,
- abjured,
- adult,
- advanced,
- advanced in life,
- advanced in years,
- age-old,
- aged,
- ageless,
- along in years,
- ancient,
- antediluvian,
- antiquated,
- antique,
- archaic,
- auld,
- big,
- blase,
- bygone,
- constant,
- continuing,
- cosmopolitan,
- cosmopolite,
- dated,
- dateless,
- demode,
- deserted,
- discontinued,
- disused,
- done with,
- early,
- elderly,
- enduring,
- erstwhile,
- established,
- experienced,
- firm,
- fore,
- former,
- getting on,
- gray,
- gray with age,
- gray-haired,
- gray-headed,
- grown,
- grown old,
- grown-up,
- hoar,
- hoary,
- immemorial,
- inveterate,
- knowing,
- late,
- lifelong,
- long-lived,
- marriable,
- marriageable,
- mature,
- matured,
- maturescent,
- not born yesterday,
- not worth saving,
- nubile,
- obsolescent,
- obsolete,
- of age,
- of marriageable age,
- of old,
- of yore,
- old as history,
- old as Methuselah,
- old as time,
- old-fashioned,
- old-time,
- old-timey,
- olden,
- oldfangled,
- on the shelf,
- once,
- onetime,
- out,
- out of use,
- out-of-date,
- outdated,
- outmoded,
- outworn,
- overage,
- passe,
- past,
- past use,
- patriarchal,
- pensioned off,
- perennial,
- perpetual,
- practical,
- practiced,
- prehistoric,
- previous,
- primeval,
- primitive,
- prior,
- quondam,
- recent,
- relinquished,
- renounced,
- resigned,
- retired,
- ripe,
- ripened,
- sagacious,
- seasoned,
- senectuous,
- skilled,
- solid,
- sometime,
- sophisticated,
- staying,
- steady,
- superannuate,
- superannuated,
- superseded,
- then,
- timeless,
- timeworn,
- traditional,
- tried,
- tried and true,
- venerable,
- versed,
- vet,
- veteran,
- whilom,
- white,
- white with age,
- white-bearded,
- white-crowned,
- white-haired,
- world-wise,
- worldly,
- worldly-wise,
- worn-out,
- wrinkled,
- wrinkly,
- years old
Words containing 'old'
- Olds,
- oldness,
- Old Agency,
- Old Appleton,
- Old Bennington,
- Old Bethpage,
- Old Bridge,
- Old Brookville,
- Old Catholic,
- Old Eucha,
- Old Field,
- Old Forge,
- Old Fort,
- Old Harbor,
- Old Ironsides,
- Old Jefferson,
- Old Monroe,
- Old Mystic,
- Old Nick,
- Old Orchard,
- Old Ripley,
- Old River,
- Old Salon,
- Old Saxon,
- Old Shawneetown,
- Old Tappan,
- Old Tenor,
- Old Town,
- Old Town, ME,
- Old Washington,
- Old Westbury,
- Old maid,
- Old song,
- Old squaw,
- Olds, IA,
- The Old Boy,
- The old masters,
- age old,
- any old way,
- grow old,
- old age,
- old bag,
- old bailey,
- old boy,
- old bulgarian,
- old bullion,
- old codger,
- old colony,
- old conjugation,
- old country,
- old days,
- old delhi,
- old dominion,
- old english,
- old faithful,
- old fashioned,
- old fogy,
- old french,
- old frisian,
- old fustic,
- old gate,
- old geezer,
- old glory,
- old gold,
- old growth,
- old guard,
- old hand,
- old hat,
- old hickory,
- old icelandic,
- old irish,
- old italian,
- old lady,
- old latin,
- old line,
- old man,
- old master,
- old money,
- old norse,
- old person,
- old prussian,
- old rose,
- old salt,
- old saw,
- old school,
- old sledge,
- old south,
- old stager,
- old story,
- old style,
- old testament,
- old timer,
- old times,
- old tore,
- old wife,
- old witchgrass,
- old woman,
- old world,
- olde worlde,
- A chip off the old block,
- Old Agency, MT,
- Old Appleton, MO,
- Old Bennington, VT,
- Old Bethpage, NY,
- Old Bridge, NJ,
- Old Brookville, NY,
- Old Brownsboro Place,
- Old Eucha, OK,
- Old Field, NY,
- Old Forge, PA,
- Old Fort, NC,
- Old Harbor, AK,
- Old Jefferson, LA,
- Old Mill Creek,
- Old Monroe, MO,
- Old Mystic, CT,
- Old Orchard Beach,
- Old Orchard Beach, ME,
- Old Orchard, PA,
- Old Ripley, IL,
- Old River, TX,
- Old Saybrook Center,
- Old Shawneetown, IL,
- Old Tappan, NJ,
- Old Washington, OH,
- Old Westbury, NY,
- Old World elder,
- Olde West Chester,
- age-old,
- chip off the old block,
- day-old,
- dirty old man,
- good old boy,
- good old days,
- old boy network,
- old catholic church,
- old church slavic,
- old church slavonic,
- old dominion state,
- old english sheepdog,
- old high german,
- old line state,
- old maid flower,
- old man of the mountain,
- old man's beard,
- old north french,
- old north state,
- old school tie,
- old style calendar,
- old style font,
- old witch grass,
- old wives' tale,
- old world beaver,
- old world buffalo,
- old world chat,
- old world coot,
- old world crayfish,
- old world flycatcher,
- old world jay,
- old world leishmaniasis,
- old world mistletoe,
- old world monkey,
- old world oriole,
- old world porcupine,
- old world quail,
- old world rabbit,
- old world robin,
- old world vulture,
- old world warbler,
- old world yew,
- old-fashioned,
- old-fashionedness,
- old-hat,
- old-line,
- old-maidish,
- old-time,
- old-timer,
- old-womanish,
- old-world,
- three year old,
- two year old,
- year-old,
- Old Brownsboro Place, KY,
- Old Mill Creek, IL,
- Old River-Winfree,
- Old Saybrook Center, CT,
- Old World ant thrushes,
- Olde West Chester, OH,
- five-year-old,
- four-year-old,
- old world coral snake,
- old world hop hornbeam,
- old world least weasel,
- old world scops owl,
- old world white pelican,
- old-age insurance,
- old-age pension,
- old-age pensioner,
- old-fashioned outmoded,
- old-field toadflax,
- old-maid's bonnet,
- old-man-of-the-woods,
- old-time quaint,
- one-year-old,
- three-year-old,
- two-year-old,
- Old River-Winfree, TX,
- three-year-old horse,
- two-year-old horse,
- fogyish mossgrown mossy stick-in-the-mudprenominal stodgy old-fashioned