old (A1)
adjective
Pronunciation: /oʊld/
Definition
Having lived for a long time; no longer young.
Examples
She looks surprisingly young for her old age.
He's an old man now, with a long white beard.
The old house stood on a hill overlooking the town.
How to Use old
- old enough to (collocation)
- Sufficiently aged or developed to do something. — "He is old enough to drive now."
- old-fashioned (collocation)
- Not modern; belonging to or characteristic of an earlier period. — "Her grandmother still uses an old-fashioned rotary phone."
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