OLD
- a person of a specified age [n -S] / living for a long time [adj OLDER, OLDEST]
- living or existing for a relatively long time [adj ELDER, ELDEST, OLDER, OLDEST] / an individual of a specified age [n OLDS]
- owing the effects of time or use worn aged old shoes
- longer in use discarded old rags
- a grayish or dusty color old mauve
- having lived or existed for a long time
- having lived or existed for a specified time
- of long standing
- former; ancient
- time long past
- dating from the remote past ancient old traditions
- long standing an old friend
- shabby through age or use
- owing the characteristics of age looked old at 20
- longing to an early period in the development of a language or literature Old Persian
- an intensive a high old time
- ed to express an attitude of affection or amusement a big old dog flex the old biceps any old time