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past times (especially in the phrase `in days of 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 old in experience; "an old offender"; "the older soldiers" experienced of long duration; not new; "old tradition"; "old house"; "old wine"; "old country"; "old friendships"; "old money" age-old, antediluvian, antique, auld, cold, hand-me-down, hoary, immemorial(ip), long-ago, longtime(a), patched, secondhand, sunset, yellow (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 Yeat aged, aged(a), aging, ancient, anile, centenarian, doddering, emeritus, gray, middle-aged, nonagenarian, octogenarian, oldish, overage, venerable, darkened, retired, sexagenarian lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new; "moth-eaten theories about race" unoriginal of an earlier time; "his old classmates" past just preceding something else in time or order; "the previous owner"; "my old house was larger" preceding(a) |
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