Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time.
an old abandoned building
Having been used and thus no longer new or unused.
I find that an old toothbrush is good to clean the keyboard with.
People who are old; old beings; the older generation, taken as a group.
A civilised society should always look after the old in the community.
A person older than oneself, especially an adult in relation to a teenager.
Near-synonyms: geezer, oldie, oldster; see also Thesaurus:old person
Initialism of Oxford Latin Dictionary.
A surname.
Inherited from Middle English old, oold, from Old English ald, eald (“old, aged, ancient, antique, primeval”), from Proto-West Germanic *ald, from Proto-Germanic *aldaz (“grown-up”), originally a part...
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