Old

//aːd//

Word Type

Adjective
Adjective
Noun
Proper Noun

The word "old" can be used as adjective, adjective, noun and proper noun.

Word Relationships

Typical Location

museum

Capable Of

become new

Derived Terms

Aldgate Gloucester Old Spots I am ... year(s) old I am twenty years old I'm ... year(s) old I'm twenty years old Old Aberdeen Old Adam Old Adaminaby Old Akkadian Old Alresford Old Anatolian Turkic Old Anatolian Turkish Old Aramaic Old Armenian Old Assyrian Old Babylonian Old Bar Old Barag Old Basford Old Basing Old Beach Old Bering Sea Old Blighty Old Blue Old Bolingbroke Old Bonalbo Old Brampton Old Bulatukan Old Bulgarian Old Calperum Old Capitol Site Old Castile Old Catton Old Church Slavic Old Church Slavonic Old City Old Cleeve Old Colwyn Old Cooranga Old Coulsdon Old Cumnock Old Czech Old Deer Old Denaby Old Dutch Old Egyptian Old Elvish Old English Old English sheepdog Old Erowal Bay Old Flemish Old Ford Old Franconian Old Frankish Old French Old Frisian Old Glory Old Grevillia Old Guildford Old Gutnish Old Harbour Old High German Old Hill Old Icelandic Old Indic Old Indo-Aryan Old Ingarsby Old Ionic Old Iranian Old Irish Old Jamestown Old Junee Old Kaabakan Old Kent Road Old Khmer Old Kilpatrick Old Latin Old Leake Old Low Franconian Old Low Frankish Old Low German Old Lyme Old Man of Coniston Old Marathi Old Marston Old Milan Old Mill Old Mill Creek Old Milton Old Milverton Old National Pronunciation Old Nick Old Noarlunga Old Norse Old North Old North French Old North State Old Norwegian Old Nubian Old Oak Common Old Orchard Beach Old Passage Old Persian Old Plains Old Poblacion Old Port Old Provençal Old Prussian Old Radnor Old Ravensworth Old Reynella Old Rizal Old Russian Old San Jose Old Sarum Old Saxon Old Saybrook Old Scandinavian Old School Old Shoreham Old Slavic Old Slavonic Old Slovak Old Sour Old South Old Station Old Stratford Old Swan Old Talgai Old Tallangatta Old Teal Flat Old Testament Old Toongabbie Old Warden Old Web Old Welsh Old Windsor Old Woking Old Wolverton Old Woodhall Old World Oldbury Oldport Oldspeak Some Old Hippie Caught Another Hippie Tripping On Acid age-old an old dog for a hard road any old any old how any old kind of way any old nook or cranny any old thing argue like an old married couple as demure as an old whore at a christening as old as Methuselah as old as time itself back to the old drawing board bad old days bicker like an old married couple big old centuries-old chip of the old block chip off the old block come the old acid come the old soldier comfortable as an old shoe day-old dirty old man every old nook and cranny everything old is new again fight like an old married couple for old sake's sake for old time's sake for old times' sake for old times' sakes forold gay old time give someone the old heave-ho good old good old boy good old boy network good old days good old times grand old man green old age high old time how old are you in the old times li'l old li'l' old like old boots lil old little old little old me make old bones money for old rope new old stock new wine in an old bottle new wine in an old wineskin nonold of old ol' old Earth creationism old English Carrier old age old age pension old age pensioner old ale old army game old as Adam old as the Pyramids old as the hills old as time old as time itself old bag old ball old banger old bean old boy old boy network old boyism old boys' club old broad old cat old chap old chestnut old clothesman old cocoyam old codger old college try old country old days old dear old enough to vote old fart old fartism old fashioned old fashioned glass old fellow old flame old fogey old fogy old folks old folks' home old franc old friend old fruit old gentleman old girl old gold old gown old growth old guard old guardism old guardist old habits die hard old hag syndrome old hand old hat old head on young shoulders old horse old in the tooth old lace old lady old lang syne old long syne old maid old maid's bonnet old man old man of the woods old man yelling at a cloud old man yelling at cloud old man yelling at clouds old man yelling at the clouds old man yells at cloud old man's beard old man's drip old man's eyebrow old man's friend old man's pepper old master old mate old media old money old moon old news old penny old people old people's home old ral old regime old rose old salt old saw old shoe old sight old sins cast long shadows old sins have long shadows old skool old sod old soldier old song old soul old sourdough old sport old squaw old stager old stick old sweat old thing old time old time used to be old timer old timer's disease old timers' disease old timey old toast old top old town old tyme old use old wife old wine in a new bottle old wine in new bottles old wives' tale old wivish old woman old woman's tooth old-age old-age pensioner old-boy network old-boyism old-clothesman old-earth creationism old-fangled old-farrand old-farrant old-fashion old-fashioned old-fashioned look old-fashionedly old-fashionedness old-field colt old-growth old-growth forest old-hat old-line old-maidenism old-maidhood old-maidish old-maidism old-man old-oil old-old old-school old-shoe old-style old-sweat old-time old-time country old-time music old-timer old-timer's disease old-timers' disease old-timey old-timy old-wifish old-wivish old-womanish old-womanishly old-world oldass oldbie oldcomer olden older adult older brother older sister older than dirt older than the Pyramids older than the hills older-aged oldest occupation oldest profession oldest profession in the world oldfag oldfangled oldhead oldhood oldies oldify oldish oldline oldling oldly oldness olds oldshit oldsome oldsquaw oldtown oldy ole one-year-old over-old pay off old scores plain old plain old data plain old telephone service poor old put new wine in old bottles rake over old coals reopen old wounds ripe old age same old same old same old same old same-old same old story same old stuff same old-same old same-old same-old slip back to old ways some old superold that old dog won't hunt the old woman is plucking her goose the oldest trick in the book there's life in the old dog yet there's many a good tune played on an old fiddle there's no fool like an old fool thousand-year-old egg today years old tough as old boots tune the old cow died of up to one's old tricks what's old is new again world's oldest profession world-old ye olde year-old you are never too old to learn you can't catch old birds with chaff you can't put an old head on young shoulders you can't teach an old dog new tricks you're never too old to learn

Distinct From

new young

Etymologically Related To

eld

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

past past times yesteryear

Type Of (IsA)

past

Similar Terms

age old age-old aged ageing aging ancient ancient anile anile antediluvian antiquated antiquated antique antique archaic auld auld centenarian centenarian darkened darkened doddering doddering doddery early early elderly elderly emeritus emeritus experienced experient familiar familiar gaga good gray gray haired gray-haired gray-headed grey grey-haired grey-headed grizzly hand down hand-down hand-me-down hoar hoary hoary immemorial immemorial long ago long time long-ago long-time longtime mature middle aged middle-aged nonagenarian nonagenarian noncurrent nonmodern octogenarian octogenarian of age of age older oldish oldish over hill over-the-hill overage overaged past patched patched preceding rusty secondhand secondhand senescent senescent senile senior sexagenarian sexagenarian stale sunset sunset superannuated unfashionable unstylish used venerable venerable white-haired worn yellow yellowed yellowed

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