eng: old

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Meaning
means(noun) past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old')
old
means(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?"
old
means(adjective) of long duration; not new; "old tradition"; "old house"; "old wine"; "old country"; "old friendships"; "old money"
old
means(adjective) (used for emphasis) very familiar; "good old boy"; "same old story"
old
means(adjective) skilled through long experience; "an old offender"; "the older soldiers"
older, old
means(adjective) belonging to some prior time; "erstwhile friend"; "our former glory"; "the once capital of the state"; "her quondam lover"
old, former, onetime, erstwhile, one-time, sometime, quondam
means(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"
sure-enough, honest-to-goodness, honest-to-god, old
means(adjective) just preceding something else in time or order; "the previous owner"; "my old house was larger"
old, previous
meanse/Old age

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