ENGLISH: old - CREOLE: aje



Overview of noun old



The noun old has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)



1. old -- (past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old'))



Overview of adj old



The adj old has 8 senses (first 6 from tagged texts)



1. (515) old -- ((used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age; "an old man's eagle mind"--William Butler Yeats; "his mother is very old"; "a ripe old age"; "how old are you?")

2. (435) old -- (of long duration; not new; "old tradition"; "old house"; "old wine"; "old country"; "old friendships"; "old money")

3. (101) old -- ((used for emphasis) very familiar; "good old boy"; "same old story")

4. (7) previous, old -- (just preceding something else in time or order; "the previous owner"; "my old house was larger")

5. (3) Old -- (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")

6. (2) old, older -- (old in experience; "an old offender"; "the older soldiers")

7. erstwhile, former, old, onetime, quondam, sometime -- (belonging to some prior time; "erstwhile friend"; "our former glory"; "the once capital of the state"; "her quondam lover")

8. honest-to-god, honest-to-goodness, old, sure-enough -- ((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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