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(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?"
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of long duration; not new;
"old tradition"
"old house"
"old wine"
"old country"
"old friendships"
"old money"
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(used for emphasis) very familiar;
"good old boy"
"same old story"
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skilled through long experience;
"an old offender"
"the older soldiers"
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belonging to some prior time;
"erstwhile friend"
"our former glory"
"the once capital of the state"
"her quondam lover"
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(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"
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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"
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just preceding something else in time or order;
"the previous owner"
"my old house was larger"