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1. old -- (past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old')).

1. old (vs. young) -- ((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?").
2. old (vs. new) -- (of long duration; not new; "old tradition"; "old house"; "old wine"; "old country"; "old friendships"; "old money").
3. old -- (of an earlier time; "his old classmates").
4. old(prenominal) -- ((used for emphasis) very familiar; "good old boy"; "same old story").
5. old, stale, moth-eaten -- (lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new; "moth-eaten theories about race").
6. previous(prenominal), 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").
8. old, older -- (old in experience; "an old offender"; "the older soldiers").
9. honest-to-god, honest-to-goodness, old(prenominal), sure-enough(prenominal) -- (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").

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