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old

Pronunciation: /ɔːld/

“old” is a Middle English word. Its 10 meanings in English:

adjective

  1. Elderly; advanced in life or lifecycle.
  2. Familiar, habitual; established as practice.
  3. Relating to old age or senescence.
  4. Old-fashioned, archaic; following previous custom.
  5. No longer extant or in use; former.
  6. Matured, stale.
  7. In the waning crescent.
  8. Mature (fully developed; past its youth).
  9. Old (having existed for a given time).

noun

  1. A moon in its first phase after new; a waxing crescent.

Etymology

Inherited from Anglian Old English ald, from Proto-West Germanic *ald, from Proto-Germanic *aldaz (“grown-up”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-. Forms with /ɛː/ are either from forms such as West Saxon Old English and Kentish Old English eald or due to analogy with the comparative eldre or superlative eldest.

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