| Noun | 1. | old - past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old') | |
| Adj. | 1. | old - (used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age; especially not young; often used as a combining form to indicate an age as specified as in `a week-old baby'; "an old man's eagle mind"--William Butler Yeats; "his mother is very old"; "a ripe old age"; "how old are you?"experienced - having become knowledgeable or skillful from observation or participation mature - having reached full natural growth or development; "a mature cell" senior - older; higher in rank; longer in length of tenure or service; "senior officer" young, immature - (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth; "young people" | |
| 2. | old - of long duration; not new; "old tradition"; "old house"; "old wine"; "old country"; "old friendships"; "old money"noncurrent - not current or belonging to the present time stale - showing deterioration from age; "stale bread" nonmodern - not modern; of or characteristic of an earlier time past - earlier than the present time; no longer current; "time past"; "his youth is past"; "this past Thursday"; "the past year" worn - affected by wear; damaged by long use; "worn threads on the screw"; "a worn suit"; "the worn pockets on the jacket" new - not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered; "a new law"; "new cars"; "a new comet"; "a new friend"; "a new year"; "the New World" | |
| 3. | old - of an earlier time; "his old classmates"past - earlier than the present time; no longer current; "time past"; "his youth is past"; "this past Thursday"; "the past year" | |
| 4. | old - (used for emphasis) very familiar; "good old boy"; "same old story"familiar - well known or easily recognized; "a familiar figure"; "familiar songs"; "familiar guests" | |
| 5. | old - lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new; "moth-eaten theories about race"unoriginal - not original; not being or productive of something fresh and unusual; "the manuscript contained unoriginal emendations"; "his life had been unoriginal, conforming completely to the given pattern"- Gwethalyn Graham | |
| 6. | old - just preceding something else in time or order; "the previous owner"; "my old house was larger" | |
| 7. | Old - of a very early stage in development; "Old English is also called Anglo Saxon"; "Old High German is High German from the middle of the 9th to the end of the 11th century"early - of an early stage in the development of a language or literature; "the Early Hebrew alphabetical script is that used mainly from the 11th to the 6th centuries B.C."; "Early Modern English is represented in documents printed from 1476 to 1700" | |
| 8. | old - old in experience; "an old offender"; "the older soldiers"experienced - having become knowledgeable or skillful from observation or participation | |
| 9. | old - 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"echt, genuine - not fake or counterfeit; "a genuine Picasso"; "genuine leather" | |