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old; having lived for relatively many years.
Old.
Of, or relating to old age.
(US) Of or pertaining to a student's final academic year at a high school (twelfth grade) or university.
Becoming elderly.
Growing old; decaying with the lapse of time.
mentally or physically infirm due to old age; senile
Of a person or thing: very old; ancient.
old-fashioned, out of date
Very old; having existed for a long time; ancient or well-established.
Having existed in ancient times, descended from antiquity; used especially in reference to Greece and Rome.
Having lasted from a remote period; having been of long duration; of great age, very old.
Retired or discarded due to age.
Commanding respect because of age, dignity, character or position.
(informal) Infatuated.
(attributive only) real, true, actual, genuine, bona fide
That is or has or have been used.
(US, colloquial) Real; actual; genuine.
(attributive only) Real; genuine.
Characteristic of a crone or a feeble old woman.
Having experience and skill in a subject.
(not comparable) Of or relating to middle age or a middle-ager; neither old nor young.
aged too much
Having an age that is greater than a stipulated minimum.
Having left employment, especially on reaching pensionable age. (of people)
No longer fresh, in reference to food, urine, straw, wounds, etc.
Having an absence of light, such as at night-time.
Used or second-hand, passed along by its prior user.
(often postpositive) Retired, but retaining an honorific version of a previous title.
(of goods) Not new; previously owned and used by another.
Having already happened; in the past; finished.
(not comparable) Prior; occurring before something else, either in time or order.
Arriving a time before expected; sooner than on time.
Having been repaired with a patch or patches.
UK, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa standard spelling of aging.
Doddering, trembly, shaky.
Lacking originality.
(n)
The moment each evening when the sun disappears below the western horizon.
(archaic, Northern England, Liverpool, Scotland, Ireland) Old.
(of a thing) Having a low temperature.
Marked or corroded by rust.
Aged 100 years or more; extremely old.
Of or related to eightysomethings.
Of or related to ninetysomethings.
Of or related to sixtysomethings.
Of a white or greyish-white colour.
White or grey with age.
Having white hair; especially, of a person, from old age.
Having grey hair.
Having gray hair, especially from age
Of or characterized by antiquity; old-fashioned, quaint, antiquated.
Of a colour between black and white, having neutral hue and intermediate brightness.
Alternative form of grey-haired. [Having grey hair.]
Alternative form of gray-headed. [Having gray hair, especially from age]
Commonwealth standard spelling of gray.
Having acquired a yellow color (or discoloration), especially when due to age; having been made yellow.
Of a yellow hue.
Containing holes by having been eaten by moth larvae.
passed on from one person to another
Alternative form of long ago. [Existing in the relatively distant past.]
Not counterfeit, spurious, false, or adulterated
Known to one, or generally known; commonplace.
Having endured for a long period of time.
(sometimes postpositive) That is beyond memory; ancient.
Occurring before or in front of something else, in time, place, rank or sequence.
Relating to the elderly.
From or relating to a previous era.
Of an object, outdated or no longer in vogue.
From or reminiscent of an earlier time or era; old-fashioned.
Adult, physically mature.
Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe.
(American spelling) Honored because of great age, or long usage.
Out of date; not the latest; obsolete.
Obsolete.
(Australian Aboriginal) Used as a general intensifier; a pfella.
Alternative form of out of date.
In the early part of growth or life; born not long ago.
Resembling a bud.
(chiefly US, Canada, colloquial) A man, generally a younger man.
Extroverted: talkative, friendly, and social, especially with respect to meeting new people easily and comfortably; outgiving.
(education) Initialism of beginning of year.
Susceptible to superstitions.
Abbreviation of brown (eye or hair color). [Having a brown colour.]
Synonym of manly. (Only used in man enough.)
Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors
Befitting a home; cozy, intimate.
Of, relating to, or derived from tradition.
A male parent, especially of a human; a male who parents a child (which he has sired, adopted, fostered, taken as his own, etc.).
(not comparable) Newly created.
(informal) A father, a male parent.
Of great size, large.
Pertaining to a convention, as in following generally accepted principles, methods and behaviour.
(uncommon, informal, chiefly in the superlative) Resembling or characteristic of a dad.
Pertaining to a stereotype; conventional.
Often in reference to a word or phrase: used so many times that it is commonplace, or no longer interesting or effective; worn out, hackneyed.