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old
Overview of noun old
The noun old has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. old -- (past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old'))
Overview of adj old
The adj old has 8 senses (first 6 from tagged texts)
1. (515) old -- ((used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age; "an old man's eagle mind"--William Butler Yeats; "his mother is very old"; "a ripe old age"; "how old are you?")
2. (435) old -- (of long duration; not new; "old tradition"; "old house"; "old wine"; "old country"; "old friendships"; "old money")
3. (101) old -- ((used for emphasis) very familiar; "good old boy"; "same old story")
4. (7) previous, old -- (just preceding something else in time or order; "the previous owner"; "my old house was larger")
5. (3) 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")
6. (2) old, older -- (old in experience; "an old offender"; "the older soldiers")
7. erstwhile, former, old, onetime, quondam, sometime -- (belonging to some prior time; "erstwhile friend"; "our former glory"; "the once capital of the state"; "her quondam lover")
8. honest-to-god, honest-to-goodness, old, sure-enough -- ((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")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun old
1 sense of old
Sense 1
old
=> past, past times, yesteryear, yore
=> time
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun old
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun old
1 sense of old
Sense 1
old
=> past, past times, yesteryear, yore
Antonyms of noun old
Member Holonyms of noun old
Substance Holonyms of noun old
Part Holonyms of noun old
Member Meronyms of noun old
Substance Meronyms of noun old
Part Meronyms of noun old
Meronyms of noun old
Holonyms of noun old
Attributes of noun old
Derived Forms of noun old
Domain of noun old
Domain Terms of noun old
Familiarity of noun old
old used as a noun is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun old
1 sense of old
Sense 1
old
> past, past times, yesteryear, yore
=> bygone, water under the bridge
=> old
=> history
=> time immemorial, time out of mind
=> auld langsyne, langsyne, old times, good old days
=> yesterday
Meronyms of noun old
1 sense of old
Holonyms of noun old
Grep of noun old
18-karat gold
22-karat gold
24-karat gold
absolute threshold
acapulco gold
acellular slime mold
african marigold
alpine gold
arnold
aztec marigold
benedict arnold
big marigold
billfold
blindfold
bold
bread mold
bur marigold
burr marigold
cape marigold
cargo hold
cellular slime mold
centerfold
centrefold
choke hold
chokehold
cold
common cold
common marigold
common scold
copyhold
corn marigold
cotswold
cuckold
dag hammarskjold
dag hjalmar agne carl hammarskjold
dental gold
difference threshold
differential threshold
dirty old man
double gold
drip mold
epicanthic fold
exhaust manifold
false vocal fold
field marigold
fig marigold
fold
fool's gold
foothold
freehold
french marigold
gatefold
gold
good old boy
good old days
green gold
guinea gold
hammarskjold
handhold
head cold
head of household
hold
hoodmold
household
inferior vocal fold
inlet manifold
intake manifold
iron mold
japanese stranglehold
leaf mold
leasehold
mangold
manifold
marigold
marsh marigold
matthew arnold
mold
mosaic gold
old
old-age insurance
old-age pension
old-age pensioner
old-fashionedness
old-field toadflax
old-maid's bonnet
old-man-of-the-woods
old-timer
old age
old bag
old bailey
old boy
old boy network
old bulgarian
old bullion
old catholic
old catholic church
old church slavic
old church slavonic
old codger
old colony
old country
old delhi
old dominion
old dominion state
old english
old english sheepdog
old faithful
old fashioned
old french
old frisian
old geezer
old glory
old gold
old growth
old guard
old hand
old hickory
old high german
old icelandic
old irish
old ironsides
old italian
old lady
old latin
old line state
old maid
old maid flower
old man
old man's beard
old man of the mountain
old master
old money
old nick
old norse
old north french
old north state
old person
old prussian
old rose
old salt
old saxon
old school
old school tie
old sledge
old south
old squaw
old stager
old style
old style calendar
old style font
old testament
old times
old witch grass
old witchgrass
old wives' tale
old woman
old world
old world beaver
old world buffalo
old world chat
old world coot
old world coral snake
old world crayfish
old world flycatcher
old world hop hornbeam
old world jay
old world least weasel
old world leishmaniasis
old world mistletoe
old world monkey
old world oriole
old world porcupine
old world quail
old world rabbit
old world robin
old world scops owl
old world vulture
old world warbler
old world white pelican
old world yew
oldenberg
oldfield
oldie
oldness
oldster
oldtimer
olduvai gorge
oldwench
oldwife
pain threshold
paper gold
pinfold
plasmodial slime mold
pot marigold
potato mold
protective fold
pure gold
safehold
scaffold
scissor hold
scissors hold
scold
scotch marigold
sheepfold
slime mold
stokehold
stranglehold
stronghold
sun marigold
taking hold
three-year-old horse
three year old
threshold
throttlehold
toehold
trifid bur marigold
true slime mold
true vocal fold
two-year-old horse
two year old
ventricular fold
vestibular fold
vocal fold
water mold
white gold
wold
wrestling hold
Grep of verb old
behold
blindfold
catch cold
cuckold
enfold
fold
get hold
hold
knock cold
make bold
manifold
mold
remold
scaffold
scold
take hold
unfold
uphold
withhold
Antonyms of adj old
8 senses of old
Sense 1
old (vs. young)
young (vs. old), immature
=> one-year-old
=> two-year-old
=> three-year-old
=> four-year-old
=> five-year-old
=> adolescent, teen, teenage, teenaged
=> infantile
=> boyish, boylike, schoolboyish
=> childlike, childly
=> early
=> formative
=> girlish, schoolgirlish
=> junior
=> little, small
=> newborn
=> preteen, preadolescent
=> puppyish, puppylike
=> tender
=> youngish
=> youthful, vernal, young
Sense 2
old (vs. new)
new (vs. old)
=> brand-new, bran-new, spic-and-span, spick-and-span
=> fresh
=> hot, red-hot
=> newborn, new-sprung(prenominal)
=> newfound
=> novel, refreshing
=> parvenu, parvenue
=> recent
=> revolutionary, radical
=> rising
=> sunrise(prenominal)
=> untested, untried
=> unused
=> virgin
=> young
Sense 3
old(prenominal)
INDIRECT (VIA familiar) -> unfamiliar
Sense 4
previous(prenominal), old
INDIRECT (VIA preceding) -> succeeding
Sense 5
Old
INDIRECT (VIA late, early) -> middle
INDIRECT (VIA early, middle) -> late
Sense 6
old, older
INDIRECT (VIA experienced) -> inexperienced, inexperient
Sense 7
erstwhile(prenominal), former(prenominal), old, onetime(prenominal), quondam(prenominal), sometime(prenominal)
INDIRECT (VIA future, past) -> present
INDIRECT (VIA past, present) -> future
Sense 8
honest-to-god, honest-to-goodness, old(prenominal), sure-enough(prenominal)
INDIRECT (VIA genuine) -> counterfeit, imitative
Similarity of adj old
8 senses of old
Sense 1
old (vs. young)
=> aged, elderly, older, senior
=> aged(prenominal), of age(predicate)
=> aging, ageing, senescent
=> ancient
=> anile
=> centenarian
=> darkened
=> doddering, doddery, gaga, senile
=> emeritus, retired
=> grey, gray, grey-haired, gray-haired, grey-headed, gray-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired
=> middle-aged
=> nonagenarian
=> octogenarian
=> oldish
=> overage, overaged, superannuated, over-the-hill
=> retired, superannuated
=> sexagenarian
=> venerable
Also See> experienced#1, experient#1; mature#3; senior#1
Sense 2
old (vs. new)
=> age-old, antique
=> antediluvian, antiquated, archaic
=> antique
=> auld
=> cold, stale
=> hand-me-down, hand-down
=> hoary, rusty
=> immemorial(postnominal)
=> long-ago
=> longtime(prenominal)
=> patched
=> secondhand, used
=> sunset
=> yellow, yellowed
Also See> noncurrent#1; nonmodern#1; past#1; stale#1; worn#1
Sense 3
old(prenominal)
=> familiar (vs. unfamiliar)
Sense 4
previous(prenominal), old
=> preceding(prenominal)(vs. succeeding)
Sense 5
Old
=> early (vs. middle)(vs. late)
Sense 6
old, older
=> experienced (vs. inexperienced), experient
Sense 7
erstwhile(prenominal), former(prenominal), old, onetime(prenominal), quondam(prenominal), sometime(prenominal)
=> past (vs. present)(vs. future)
Sense 8
honest-to-god, honest-to-goodness, old(prenominal), sure-enough(prenominal)
=> genuine (vs. counterfeit), echt
Pertainyms of adj old
Attributes of adj old
2 of 8 senses of old
Sense 1
old (vs. young)
=> age
Sense 2
old (vs. new)
=> age
Domain of adj old
1 of 8 senses of old
Sense 5
Old
TOPIC>(noun) linguistics#1
Domain Terms of adj old
Familiarity of adj old
old used as an adjective is common (polysemy count =8)
Grep of adj old
acold
age-old
blindfold
bold
cold
day-old
eight-fold
eightfold
five-fold
five-year-old
fivefold
foretold
four-fold
four-year-old
fourfold
gold
ice-cold
manifold
nine-fold
ninefold
old
old-fashioned
old-hat
old-maidish
old-time
old-womanish
old-world
old world
olde worlde
olden
older
oldish
one-year-old
overbold
seven-fold
sevenfold
six-fold
sixfold
sold
stone-cold
ten-fold
tenfold
three-fold
three-year-old
threefold
two-fold
two-year-old
twofold
unsold
untold
Grep of adv old
all told
fourfold
hundredfold
millionfold
ninefold
sevenfold
sixfold
tenfold
thousand-fold
threefold
twofold
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