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People who are old; old beings; the older generation; usually used with the.
1. A civilised society should always look after the old in the community.

Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time.
1. an old abandoned building; an old friend ‎
2. a wrinkled old man ‎
3. an old loaf of bread ‎

Of an item that has been used and so is not new (unused).

How old are they? She’s five years old and he's seven. We also have a young teen and a two-year-old child. ‎
My great-grandfather lived to be a hundred and one years old. ‎

(heading) Of an earlier time.

My new car is not as good as my old one. a school reunion for Old Etonians ‎
The footpath follows the route of an old railway line. ‎
That is the old way of doing things; now we do it this way. ‎
When he got drunk and quarrelsome they just gave him the old heave-ho. ‎

A grammatical intensifier, often used in describing something positive. (Mostly in idioms like good old, big old and little old, any old and some old.).

We're having a good old time. My next car will be a big old SUV. My wife makes the best little old apple pie in Texas. ‎

Plus d'exemples

Utilisé au milieu de la phrase
- My older brother and I are Catholic twins. He’s older by eleven months, not quite a year older than me.
- The place is chock-a-block full of old empty bottles on shelves, a collection from around the world.
- I think it's time to dust off my old golf clubs, now that I'm retired.
Utilisé au début de la phrase
- Old Buggy and Winter Birds shows a buggy parked in front of a drive shed, while cardinals, juncos, and song sparrows feed on grain strewn over the ground.
- Old couples sometimes will play tapes at each other during a fight.
Utilisé dans la fin de la phrase
- In addition, 85.6% of candiduric patients have [sic] less than 6 months years old.
- Sometimes people aren't available for a rousing night of "Netflix and chill." - Can't change someone or fix them. People are who they are, especially as they get older.
- I finally decided that the production was a work of neoromanticism, not only because I like a good ten-dollar word, but because the basic struggle here is between the young and the old.

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