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English
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Etymology
From Middle English olde, ald, from Old English ald, eald (“old, aged, ancient, antique, primeval”), from Proto-West Germanic *ald, from Proto-Germanic *aldaz (“grown-up”), originally a participle form, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eltós (“grown, tall, big”).
Cognate with Scots auld (“old”), North Frisian ool, ual, uul (“old”), Saterland Frisian oold (“old”), West Frisian âld (“old”), Dutch oud (“old”), Low German old (“old”), German alt (“old”), Swedish äldre (“older, elder”), Icelandic eldri (“older, elder”), Latin altus (“high, tall, grown big, lofty”). Related to eld.
Pronunciation
Adjective
old (comparative older or elder, superlative oldest or eldest or (US, dialectal) oldermost)
- Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time.
an old abandoned building
an old friend
1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., , →OCLC:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.
- Of a living being, having lived for most of the expected years.
a wrinkled old man
- Of a perishable item, having existed for most of, or more than, its shelf life.
an old loaf of bread
- Of a species or language, belonging to a lineage that is distantly related others
the ginkgo is one of the oldest living trees
Basque is the oldest language in Europe
- Having been used and thus no longer new or unused.
I find that an old toothbrush is good to clean the keyboard with.
- Having existed or lived for the specified time.
How old are they? She’s five years old and he's seven. We also have a young teen and a two-year-old child.
My great-grandfather lived to be a hundred and one years old.
- (heading) Of an earlier time.
- Former, previous.
My new car is not as good as my old one. a school reunion for Old Etonians
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; for, even after she had conquered her love for the Celebrity, the mortification of having been jilted by him remained.
1994, Michael Grumley, Life Drawing:But over my old life, a new life had formed.
- That is no longer in existence.
The footpath follows the route of an old railway line.
- Obsolete; out-of-date.
That is the old way of doing things; now we do it this way.
- Familiar.
1991, Stephen Fry, chapter III, in The Liar, London: William Heinemann, →ISBN, page 26:Adrian thought it worth while to try out his new slang. ‘I say, you fellows, here's a rum go. Old Biffo was jolly odd this morning. He gave me a lot of pi-jaw about slacking and then invited me to tea. No rotting! He did really.’
When he got drunk and quarrelsome they just gave him the old heave-ho.
- (UK) Being a graduate or alumnus of a school, especially a public school.
- Tiresome after prolonged repetition.
1995, MacUser, volume 11, MacUser Publications, page 147:Rik: But even great shtick can get old real fast: the dreaded Saturday Night Live syndrome.
Jim: Randomness can help - many Living Books have characters that do different things each time you click on them.
2000, Charles A. Siringo, A Texas Cowboy: or, Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony, Penguin, →ISBN, page 100:John and I built a small stone house on the head of “Bonetta” Canyon and had a hog killing time all by ourselves. Hunting was our delight at first, until it became old.
2008, Homer L. Hall, Logan H. Aimone, High School Journalism, The Rosen Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 171:The songs start to get old real fast, and it's easy to get bored after the third song.
2012, Blossom, From Under a Bridge Ii, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 40:It was the same old thing every week, working and drinking, working and drinking. It became old and I got really sick of it.
Your constant pestering is getting old.
- Said of subdued colors, particularly reds, pinks and oranges, as if they had faded over time.
- Synonym: antique
- A grammatical intensifier, often used in describing something positive, and combined with another adjective.
My wife makes the best little old apple pie in Texas.
- any old
- (informal, of a person) Indicating affection and familiarity.
- Designed for a mature audience; unsuitable for children below a certain age.
1868, Oliver Optic's Magazine: Our Boys and Girls ..., page 431:Monsieur's story is too old for our Juvenile Magazine.
1998, Rita Schrank, Science, Math, and Nutrition for Toddlers: Setting the Stage for Serendipity:The text is too old for toddlers, but the colorful photographs are large enough and appropriate for them.
2006 January 9, Christine L. Williams, Inside Toyland: Working, Shopping, and Social Inequality, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 219:Diane Ehrensaft (1997) finds that middle-class parents typically buy "older" toys for their children to encourage accelerated development.
2019 12, Sean David Burke, Lighting the Literacy Fire, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 131:If you feel you have to leave something out because it's too horrible, then either the story is too old for the child, or you fail to understand the way your child will accept the rough justice and feel inwardly content at the outcome.
2021, Joe Brumm, “Chest”, in Bluey, season 3, episode 11:Bluey: Oh! It's like checkers!
Bandit: Yeah, but a lot harder than checkers.
Chilli: And so probably a bit old for Bluey, right?
- (obsolete) Excessive, abundant.
1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :URSULA: Madam, you must come to your uncle. Yonder's old coil at home: it is proved, my Lady Hero hath been falsely accused, the prince and Claudio mightily abused;
Synonyms
- (having existed for a long period of time): ancient, long in the tooth, paleo-; see also Thesaurus:old
- (having lived for many years): aged, ageing / aging, elderly, long in the tooth, on in years; see also Thesaurus:elderly
- (having existed or lived for the specified time): aged, of age
- (former): erstwhile, ex-, former, one-time, past; see also Thesaurus:former
- (out-of-date): antiquated, obsolete (of words), outdated; see also Thesaurus:obsolete
Antonyms
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Translations
of an object, concept, etc: having existed for a relatively long period of time
- Abkhaz: ажә (aẑʷ)
- Acehnese: tuha
- Adyghe: жъы (ẑə)
- Afrikaans: ou (af)
- Ahom: 𑜀𑜧 (kaw)
- Albanian: vjetër (sq)
- American Sign Language: S@Chin S@FromChin
- Amharic: አሮጌ (ʾäroge)
- Andi: вохор (voxor)
- Arabic: قَدِيم (ar) (qadīm)
- Hijazi Arabic: قديم (gadīm)
- Moroccan Arabic: قديم (qdīm)
- South Levantine Arabic: قديم (ʔadīm)
- Aragonese: biello, viello (an) m
- Armenian: հին (hy) (hin), տարեց (hy) (tarecʻ)
- Aromanian: veclju
- Assamese: পুৰণা (purona)
- Asturian: vieyu (ast), antiguu
- Avar: хераб (xerab)
- Azerbaijani: əski (az), köhnə (az)
- Bashkir: иҫке (iśke)
- Basque: zahar
- Belarusian: стары́ (starý)
- Bengali: পুরোনো (bn) (purōnō)
- Bikol Central: daan (bcl)
- Breton: hen (br), kozh (br)
- Brunei Malay: lama
- Bulgarian: стар (bg) (star)
- Burmese: ဟောင်း (my) (haung:)
- Carpathian Rusyn: стары́й (starŷ́j)
- Catalan: vell (ca), antic (ca)
- Chechen: къена (qʼena)
- Chichewa: please add this translation if you can
- Chickasaw: sipokni
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 舊/旧 (gau6)
- Dungan: җю (ži͡u)
- Eastern Min: 舊/旧 (gô / gêu)
- Gan: 舊/旧 (qiu5)
- Hakka: 舊/旧 (PFS: khiu; Guangdong: kiu4)
- Hokkien: 舊/旧 (zh-min-nan) (kū / kiū)
- Jin: 舊/旧 (jiou3)
- Mandarin: 舊/旧 (zh) (jiù), 古老 (zh) (gǔlǎo)
- Northern Min: 舊/旧 (giū)
- Wu: 舊/旧 (6jieu)
- Xiang: 舊/旧 (jiou5 / jiou4)
- Chuvash: кивӗ (kivĕ)
- Coptic: ⲁⲥ (as)
- Cornish: hen, koth
- Czech: starý (cs)
- Dalmatian: vieclo m
- Danish: gammel (da)
- Dutch: oud (nl)
- Elfdalian: gåmål
- Erzya: ташто (tašto)
- Esperanto: malnova (eo), grandaĝa
- Estonian: vana (et)
- Ewe: xoxo
- Faroese: gamal (fo)
- Finnish: vanha (fi)
- French: (used before the noun) vieux (fr) m, vieille (fr) f
- Friulian: vieli, vieri
- Galician: vello (gl)
- Georgian: ძველი (ʒveli)
- German: alt (de)
- Gothic: 𐌰𐌻𐌸𐌴𐌹𐍃 (alþeis), 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌽𐌴𐌹𐍃 (fairneis)
- Greek: παλιός (el) m (paliós), αρχαίος (el) m (archaíos)
- Ancient: παλαιός (palaiós)
- Gujarati: જૂનું (jūnũ)
- Haitian Creole: vye
- Hausa: tsoho
- Hawaiian: kahiko
- Hebrew: יָשָׁן (he) (yashán)
- Higaonon: da-an
- Hindi: पुराना (hi) (purānā)
- Hittite: 𒈪𒅀𒄷𒉿𒀭𒍝 (miyaḫuwanz)
- Hungarian: régi (hu)
- Icelandic: gamall (is)
- Ido: anciena (io), antiqua (io)
- Igbo: ochie (ig)
- Indonesian: lama (id)
- Interlingua: vetere, vetule
- Irish: sean (ga)
- Istriot: viecio
- Italian: vecchio (it)
- Japanese: 古い (ja) (ふるい, furui)
- Javanese: lama (jv), lawas (jv)
- Kabardian: жьы (kbd) (źə)
- Kabuverdianu: antigu, antige, bedju, bedje
- Kannada: ಪುರಾತನ (kn) (purātana)
- Kashubian: stôri
- Kazakh: ескі (kk) (eskı)
- Khmer: ចាស់ (km) (cah)
- Korean: 낡다 (ko) (nakda), 오래되다 (ko) (oraedoeda)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: کۆن (kon)
- Northern Kurdish: kevn (ku)
- Kyrgyz: эски (ky) (eski)
- Lao: ເກົ່າ (lo) (kao)
- Latgalian: vacs, senejais
- Latin: vetus (la), vetulus (la)
- Latvian: sens (lv), vecs
- Lezgi: кьуьзуь (q̇üzü)
- Ligurian: vêgio
- Lithuanian: senas (lt)
- Livonian: vanā
- Lombard: vegg (lmo) m, veggia (lmo) f
- Louisiana Creole French: vyé
- Lü: ᦂᧁᧈ (k̇aw¹)
- Macedonian: стар (star)
- Malay: lama (ms)
- Malayalam: പഴയ (ml) (paḻaya), പഴയത് (ml) (paḻayatŭ)
- Maltese: qadim m
- Manchu: ᡶᡝ (fe)
- Maori: tahito, tawhito
- Marathi: जुना (mr) m (junā)
- Minangkabau: lamo (min)
- Mirandese: bielho
- Mòcheno: òlt
- Moksha: ташта (tašta)
- Mongolian: хуучин (xuučin), хөгшин (mn) (xögšin)
- Muong: please add this translation if you can
- Navajo: sání
- Neapolitan: viecchio
- Nepali: पुरानो (ne) (purāno)
- Ngazidja Comorian: -ɗuhazi
- North Frisian: (Föhr-Amrum) ual
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: gammel (no), gammal (no)
- Nynorsk: gamal, gammal
- Occitan: vièlh (oc)
- Odia: ପୁରୁଣା (or) (puruṇa)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: старъ (starŭ)
- Old East Slavic: старъ (starŭ)
- Old English: eald (ang), gamol
- Old Javanese: lama, lawas
- Old Saxon: ald
- Oromo: moofaa
- Pashto: زوړ (ps) m (zoṛ), زړه (ps) f (zaṛa)
- Persian: قدیمی (fa) (qadimi), دیرین (fa) (dirin) (archaic), کهن (fa) (kohan), کهنه (fa) (kohne)
- Piedmontese: vecc
- Pijin: olofala
- Plautdietsch: oolt
- Polish: stary (pl)
- Portuguese: velho (pt), antigo (pt)
- Punjabi: ਪੁਰਾਣਾ m (purāṇā), ਪੁਰਾਣੀ f (purāṇī), ਪੁਰਾਣੇ pl (purāṇe), ਪੁਰਾਣੀਆਂ f pl (purāṇīā̃)
- Quechua: mauka
- Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can
- Romani: purano
- Romanian: vechi (ro)
- Romansch: vegl
- Russian: ста́рый (ru) (stáryj)
- Samoan: leva
- Saterland Frisian: oold
- Scots: auld
- Scottish Gaelic: sean, aosda, aosmhor
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: стар
- Roman: star (sh)
- Shan: ၵဝ်ႇ (shn) (kào)
- Sicilian: vecchiu
- Sindhi: please add this translation if you can
- Sinhalese: පැරණි (si) (pæraṇi), පරණ (si) (paraṇa)
- Slovak: starý (sk)
- Slovene: stàr (sl)
- Somali: gabow
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: stary
- Upper Sorbian: stary (hsb)
- Southern Altai: эски (eski)
- Spanish: antiguo (es), viejo (es)
- Sranan Tongo: owru
- Sundanese: heubeul (su)
- Swedish: gammal (sv), förlegad (sv), utsliten (sv)
- Sylheti: ꠙꠥꠞ꠆ꠘꠣ (furna)
- Tagalog: luma
- Tai Dam: ꪹꪀ꪿ꪱ
- Tajik: кӯҳна (tg) (kühna), қадим (tg) (qadim), қадими (qadimi)
- Tamil: பழைய (ta) (paḻaiya)
- Tarantino: vècchie
- Tatar: иске (iske)
- Tausug: dan
- Telugu: పాత (te) (pāta)
- Tetum: tuan
- Thai: เก่า (th) (gào)
- Tibetan: རྙིང་པ (rnying pa)
- Tigrinya: ኣረጊት (ʾarägit)
- Tongan: motuʻa
- Turkish: eski (tr)
- Turkmen: köne
- Udi: биси (bisi)
- Ukrainian: стари́й (uk) (starýj)
- Urdu: پرانا (purānā)
- Uyghur: ئەسكى (eski)
- Uzbek: eski (uz)
- Venetian: vecio
- Vietnamese: cũ (vi)
- Volapük: vönik (vo)
- Walloon: vî (wa)
- Waray-Waray: da-an
- Welsh: hen (cy)
- West Frisian: âld (fy)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: da'an
- White Hmong: hub
- Yiddish: אַלט (alt), פֿאַרלעגן (farlegn), יעריק (yerik)
- Zazaki: khan
- Zealandic: oud
- Zhuang: gaeuq
- Zulu: please add this translation if you can
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of a living being: having lived for relatively many years
- Adyghe: жъы (ẑə)
- Afrikaans: ou (af)
- Albanian: plak (sq)
- American Sign Language: S@Chin S@FromChin
- Arabic: كَبِير اَلسِّنّ (kabīr as-sinn), مُسِنّ (musinn)
- Egyptian Arabic: عجوز m (ʕagōz)
- Hijazi Arabic: كَبير (kabīr), عجوز m (ʕajūz), شايب m (šāyib)
- South Levantine Arabic: كبير (kbīr)
- Aragonese: biello, viello (an) m
- Armenian: ծեր (hy) (cer), պառավ (hy) (paṙav), տարեց (hy) (tarecʻ)
- Assamese: বুঢ়া m (burha), বুঢ়ী f (burhi)
- Asturian: vieyu (ast)
- Azerbaijani: qoca (az)
- Bashkir: ҡарт (qart)
- Basque: zahar, agure m, atso f
- Belarusian: стары́ (starý), пажылы́ (pažylý), у гада́х (u hadáx), немалады́ (njemaladý)
- Bengali: পুরোনো (bn) (purōnō), প্রবীণ (bn) (probin)
- Brunei Malay: tua, beumur
- Bulgarian: стар (bg) (star), въ́зстар (vǎ́zstar), възста́р (vǎzstár), въ́зрастен (bg) (vǎ́zrasten)
- Burmese: အို (my) (ui)
- Carpathian Rusyn: стары́й (starŷ́j)
- Catalan: vell (ca), gran (ca), longeu (ca) m
- Chamicuro: shashaka
- Cherokee: ᎠᎦᏴᎵ (agayvli)
- Chickasaw: sipokni
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 老 (yue) (lou5)
- Dungan: ло (lo)
- Mandarin: 老 (zh) (lǎo), 年老的 (zh) (niánlǎo de), 老年的 (zh) (lǎonián de)
- Chuvash: ватӑ (vat̬ă)
- Czech: starý (cs)
- Danish: gammel (da)
- Dutch: oud (nl)
- Elfdalian: gåmål
- Erzya: сыре (siŕe)
- Esperanto: maljuna, grandaĝa, olda (eo)
- Estonian: vana (et)
- Etruscan: 𐌅𐌄𐌕𐌖𐌔 (vetus)
- Even: хагди (hagʒi)
- Evenki: сагды (sagdi)
- Finnish: vanha (fi)
- Franco-Provençal: vieu m
- French: vieux (fr) (used before the noun)
- Friulian: vieli
- Galician: vello (gl)
- Georgian: მოხუცი (moxuci), ბებერი (beberi), ხანდაზმული (xandazmuli)
- German: alt (de)
- Middle High German: eltlich
- Gothic: 𐌰𐌻𐌸𐌴𐌹𐍃 (alþeis), 𐍃𐌹𐌽𐌴𐌹𐌲𐍃 (sineigs), 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌽𐌴𐌹𐍃 (fairneis)
- Greek: γηραιός (el) m (giraiós), ηλικιωμένος (el) m (ilikioménos)
- Ancient: γηραιός (gēraiós)
- Hawaiian: luahine (of women), ʻelemakule (of men)
- Hebrew: זָקֵן (he) (zakén), קָשִׁישׁ (he) m (kashísh)
- Hiligaynon: baúg
- Hindi: बूढ़ा (hi) (būṛhā)
- Hungarian: öreg (hu), idős (hu)
- Icelandic: gamall (is)
- Ido: olda (io)
- Igbo: agadi (ig)
- Indonesian: tua (id)
- Irish: sean (ga), aosta
- Italian: vecchio (it), anziano (it)
- Japanese: 年老いた (としおいた, toshioita), 老いた (ja) (おいた, oita)
- Javanese: tuwa (jv)
- Kabuverdianu: bedju, bedje
- Karakhanid: يَشْلِغْ (yašlïɣ)
- Kashubian: stôri
- Kazakh: кәрі (kk) (kärı)
- Khmer: ចាស់ (km) (cah)
- Korean: 늙다 (ko) (neukda), 나이들다 (naideulda), 연로하다 (yeollohada), 나이 많다 (nai manta)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: پیرەمێرد (pîremêrd) (male), پیرەژن (pîrejn) (female)
- Northern Kurdish: pîr (ku), پیر (ku) (pîr)
- Kyrgyz: кары (karı)
- Lao: ແກ່ (lo) (kǣ)
- Latin: vetus (la), vetulus (la), senex (la), annosus
- Latvian: vecs
- Ligurian: vêgio
- Lithuanian: senas (lt)
- Livonian: vanā
- Lombard: vegg (lmo) m, veggia (lmo) f
- Louisiana Creole French: vyé
- Macedonian: стар (star)
- Malay: tua (ms)
- Malayalam: പഴയ (ml) (paḻaya), പഴയത് (ml) (paḻayatŭ)
- Maltese: xiħ m, xiħa f, xjuħ pl
- Manchu: ᠰᠠᡴ᠋ᡩ᠋ᠠ (sakda)
- Marathi: भुंडा (bhuṇḍā), म्हातारा (mr) m (mhātārā)
- Minangkabau: tuo (min), gaek (min)
- Mòcheno: òlt
- Moksha: ташта (tašta)
- Mongolian: хөгшин (mn) (xögšin)
- Nanai: сагди (sagʒi)
- Navajo: sání
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: gammel (no), gammal (no)
- Nynorsk: gamal, gammal
- Occitan: vièlh (oc)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: старъ (starŭ)
- Old East Slavic: старъ (starŭ)
- Old English: eald (ang), gamol
- Old Javanese: tuha
- Ottoman Turkish: یاشلی (yaşlı), قوجه (koca)
- Papiamentu: bieu
- Persian: پیر (fa) (pir), کهنسال (fa) (kohansâl), مسن (fa) (mosen), زرمان (zarmân)
- Plautdietsch: oolt
- Polish: stary (pl), niemłody (pl)
- Portuguese: velho (pt), idoso (pt)
- Punjabi: ਬੁੱਢਾ (buḍḍhā)
- Rapa Nui: koroua, tuuai
- Romani: phuro
- Romanian: bătrân (ro)
- Romansch: vegl
- Russian: ста́рый (ru) (stáryj), пожило́й (ru) (požilój) (elderly (of people)), немолодо́й (ru) (nemolodój), в лета́х (v letáx), в года́х (v godáx), в во́зрасте (ru) (v vózraste)
- Samoan: matua (sm)
- Sanskrit: वृद्ध (sa) (vṛddha)
- Scottish Gaelic: sean, aosda
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: стар
- Roman: star (sh)
- Sinhalese: නාකි (nāki), වයසක (wayasaka)
- Slovak: starý (sk), bývalý
- Slovene: stàr (sl)
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: stary
- Spanish: anciano (es), viejo (es), provecto (es), añejo (es) (colloquial), longevo
- Sundanese: sepuh
- Swedish: gammal (sv), åldrig (sv), ålderstigen (sv)
- Tajik: пир (pir)
- Tatar: карт (tt) (qart)
- Tausug: mas
- Telugu: ముసలి (te) (musali)
- Tetum: katuas, ferik
- Thai: แก่ (th) (gɛ̀ɛ)
- Tocharian B: ktsaitstse, śrāñ
- Tongan: motuʻa
- Turkish: yaşlı (tr)
- Turkmen: garry
- Udmurt: пересь (pereś)
- Ukrainian: стари́й (uk) (starýj), лі́тній (uk) (lítnij), у літа́х (u litáx), немолоди́й (nemolodýj), підста́ркуватий (pidstárkuvatyj)
- Urdu: بوڑھا (būṛhā)
- Uyghur: قېرى (qëri)
- Uzbek: qari (uz)
- Venetian: vècio (vec), vecio m
- Vietnamese: già (vi)
- Waray-Waray: a-rug, lagas
- Welsh: hen (cy)
- West Frisian: âld (fy)
- Yiddish: אַלט (alt), זקנדיק (zokndik), זקניש (zkeynish), יעריק (yerik)
- Zazaki: khal (diq)
- Zhuang: laux
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having existed or lived for the specified time
- Catalan: tenir (ca) + period of time
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 歲/岁 (zh) (suì)
- Czech: starý (cs)
- Danish: gammel (da)
- Esperanto: aĝa, jaraĝa, aĝi
- Finnish: -vuotias, vanha (fi), ikäinen (fi)
- French: avoir (fr) + period of time
- German: alt (de)
- Hebrew: בֵּן (he) m (ben), בַּת (he) f (bat)
- Hungarian: (year/s old) éves (hu), (month/s old) hónapos (hu), (week/s old) hetes (hu), (day/s old) napos (hu), (hour/s old) órás (hu), (minute/s old) perces (hu)
- Irish: d'aois
- Italian: avere (it)
- Japanese: 歳 (ja) (さい, sai), 才 (ja) (さい, sai)
- Kashmiri : ؤۂر (vạhạr) (year/s old)
- Korean: 먹었다 (meogeotda)
- Latin: natus esse
- Latvian: vecs
- Louisiana Creole French: period of time + nan or an
- Macedonian: има (ima) + number + години (godini)
- Navajo: nááhai
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: gammel (no), gammal (no)
- Nynorsk: gamal, gammal
- Persian: ساله (fa) (sâle)
- Polish: stary (pl)
- Portuguese: de (pt), com (pt)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: стар
- Roman: star (sh)
- Slovak: starý (sk)
- Slovene: stàr (sl)
- Sorbian:
- Spanish: de (es) + period of time, que tener + period of time + unit of time
- Swedish: gammal (sv)
- Tagalog: luma, dati
- Turkish: number + yaşında
- Vietnamese: tuổi (vi)
- West Frisian: âld (fy)
- Yiddish: ־יעריק (-yerik), ־יאָריק (-yorik)
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(of an item) used, not new
Translations to be checked
Noun
old (plural olds)
- (with the, invariable plural only) People who are old; old beings; the older generation, taken as a group.
- A civilised society should always look after the old in the community.
- (slang) A person older than oneself, especially an adult in relation to a teenager.
- (slang, most often plural) One's parents.
- I had to sneak out to meet my girlfriend and tell the olds I was going to the library.
- (Australia, uncountable) A typically dark-coloured lager brewed by the traditional top-fermentation method.
2010, Peter Corris, Torn Apart, Allen and Unwin, page 117:We crossed to the pub on the corner of Carlisle Street and I ordered two schooners of old for him and one of light for me.
Anagrams
Danish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Norse ǫld, from Proto-Germanic *aldiz, cognate with Gothic 𐌰𐌻𐌳𐍃 (alds).
Noun
old c (singular definite olden, not used in plural form)
- (archaic) period, age, generation
1813, N.F.S. Grundtvig, “Kristjan den sjette”, in Poetiske Skrifter, volume 3, page 306:Hvad der bygtes i din Old, Bygtes som paa Grus og Sand.- What was built in your age was built as if on gravel and sand.
1805, Adam Oehleschläger, Isefjorden:Hvor de tykke Piller favne / Støvet af de store Navne, / Som ei døer, ei blier forgiettet, / Naar min Old er længst udslettet.- Where the massive columns embrace the dust of the great names that will not die, will not be forgotten when my generation has been obliterated for a long time.
- (archaic, rare) antiquity
1891, Holger Drachmann, Vildt og tæmmet, section 299:Andenlæreren var en Sværmer, og en fanatisk Sværmer, for den nordiske Old.- The teaching assistant was an enthusiast, a fanatic enthusiast, for the Nordic Antiquity.
Declension
Derived terms
References
Etymology 2
Clipping of oldtidskundskab.
Noun
old c (uninflected)
- Classical Civilization (a course in secondary school)
- Synonym: oldtidskundskab
Derived terms
References
German Low German
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle Low German ôlt. The A became an O through the effect of the velarised L in the same manner as in Dutch oud.
Cognate with English old, Dutch oud, German alt, West Frisian âld.
Pronunciation
Adjective
old (comparative öller, superlative öllst)
- old
Declension
Positive forms of old
gender
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singular
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plural
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masculine
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feminine
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neuter
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all genders
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predicative
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he is old
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se is old
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dat is old
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se sünd old
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partitive
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een olls
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een olls
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wat olls
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allens oll
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strong declension (without article)
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nominative
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olle
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olle
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old
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olle
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oblique
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ollen
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olle
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old
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olle
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weak declension (with definite article)
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nominative
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de olle
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de olle
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dat olle
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de ollen
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oblique
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den ollen
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de olle
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dat olle
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de ollen
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mixed declension (with indefinite article)
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nominative
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en olle/ollen
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en olle
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en old/ollet
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(keen) ollen
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oblique
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en ollen
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en olle
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en old/ollet
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(keen) ollen
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Comparative forms of old
gender
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singular
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plural
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masculine
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feminine
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neuter
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all genders
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predicative
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he is öller
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se is öller
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dat is öller
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se sünd öller
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partitive
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een öllers
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een öllers
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wat öllers
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allens öller
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strong declension (without article)
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nominative
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öllere
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öllere
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öller
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öllere
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oblique
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öllern
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öllere
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öller
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öllere
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weak declension (with definite article)
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nominative
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de öllere
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de öllere
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dat öllere
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de öllern
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oblique
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den öllern
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de öllere
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dat öllere
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de öllern
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mixed declension (with indefinite article)
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nominative
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en öllere/ölleren
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en öllere
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en öller
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(keen) öllern
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oblique
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en öllern
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en öllere
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en öller
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(keen) öllern
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Superlative forms of old
gender
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singular
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plural
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masculine
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feminine
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neuter
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all genders
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predicative
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he is de Öllste
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se is de Öllste
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dat is dat Öllste
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se sünd de Öllsten
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strong declension (without article)
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nominative
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öllste
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öllste
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öllst
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öllste
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oblique
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öllsten
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öllste
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öllst
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öllste
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weak declension (with definite article)
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nominative
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de öllste
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de öllste
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dat öllste
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de öllsten
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oblique
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den öllsten
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de öllste
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dat öllste
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de öllsten
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mixed declension (with indefinite article)
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nominative
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en öllste/öllsten
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en öllste
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en öllst
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(keen) öllsten
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oblique
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en öllsten
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en öllste
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en öllst
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(keen) öllsten
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Note: This declension is one of many; neither its grammar nor spelling apply to all dialects.
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Descendants
Hungarian
Etymology
From Proto-Uralic *aŋa- (“to loosen, open (up), untie”) + -d (frequentative suffix).
Pronunciation
Verb
old
- (transitive) to solve
- (transitive) to untie
Conjugation
potential conjugation of old
Derived terms
(With verbal prefixes):
References
Further reading
- old in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Middle Low German
Adjective
old
- Alternative spelling of ôlt.