Definition of Old

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Definition of Old

Old

Open country.

Not young; advanced far in years or life; having lived till toward the end of the ordinary term of living; as, an old man; an old age; an old horse; an old tree.

Not new or fresh; not recently made or produced; having existed for a long time; as, old wine; an old friendship.

Formerly existing; ancient; not modern; preceding; original; as, an old law; an old custom; an old promise.

Continued in life; advanced in the course of existence; having (a certain) length of existence; -- designating the age of a person or thing; as, an infant a few hours old; a cathedral centuries old.

Long practiced; hence, skilled; experienced; cunning; as, an old offender; old in vice.

Long cultivated; as, an old farm; old land, as opposed to new land, that is, to land lately cleared.

Worn out; weakened or exhausted by use; past usefulness; as, old shoes; old clothes.

More than enough; abundant.

Aged; antiquated; hence, wanting in the mental vigor or other qualities belonging to youth; -- used disparagingly as a term of reproach.

Old-fashioned; wonted; customary; as of old; as, the good old times; hence, colloquially, gay; jolly.

Used colloquially as a term of cordiality and familiarity.

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Old Quotations

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
Albert Einstein

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
Dalai Lama

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.
Wayne Dyer

I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.
Barack Obama

We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.
Barack Obama

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.
Winston Churchill

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.
Winston Churchill

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.
Winston Churchill

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
Winston Churchill

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
Mark Twain

Old Translations

old in Afrikaans is oud
old in Danish is gammel
old in Dutch is vergevorderd, oud, bejaard
old in Finnish is vanha
old in French is vieux, olda
old in German is alt
old in Latin is senex senis, antiquus, provectus, vetus
old in Norwegian is gammel
old in Portuguese is velho
old in Swedish is gammal

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