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📖 Определения и значения для слова old

📒 of a particular age

  • be… years, months, etc. old The baby was only a few hours old.
  • In those days most people left school when they were only fifteen years old.
  • At thirty years old, he was already earning £40 000 a year.

📒 having lived for a long time; no longer young

  • to get/grow old
  • The old man lay propped up on cushions.
  • a little old lady

📒 old people

  • The old feel the cold more than the young.

📒 having existed or been used for a long time

  • old habits
  • He always gives the same old excuses.
  • This carpet's getting pretty old now.

📒 former; belonging to past times or a past time in your life

  • Things were different in the old days.
  • I went back to visit my old school.
  • Old and Middle English

📒 used to refer to something that has been replaced by something else

  • We had more room in our old house.
  • Mum and Dad bought us a fridge and gave us their old telly.

📒 known for a long time

  • She's an old friend of mine (= I have known her for a long time).
  • We're old rivals.
  • It's always the same old faces.

📒 used to show kind feelings or a lack of respect

  • Good old Dad!
  • You poor old thing!
  • I don't want to read that stupid old book anyway.

📒 any item of the type mentioned (used when it is not important which particular item is chosen)

  • Any old room would have done.

📒 in a careless or untidy way

  • The books were piled up all over the floor any old how.

📒 very old; ancient

📒 to be behaving in the same bad way as before

  • He had soon spent all the money and was up to his old tricks.

📒 a person who is very similar to their mother or father in the way that they look or behave

📒 if you do something for old times’ sake, you do it because it is connected with something good that happened to you in the past

📒 to dismiss somebody from their job; to end a relationship with somebody

📒 an earlier period of time in your life or in history that is seen as better/worse than the present

  • That was in the bad old days of rampant inflation.

📒 a great age

  • She finally learned to drive at the grand old age of 70.

📒 a man who is respected in a particular profession that he has been involved in for a long time

  • James Lovelock, the grand old man of environmental science

📒 to enjoy yourself very much

📒 used to give an amount, a measurement, etc. using older or more traditional units that may be more familiar to some people

  • The fish measured 29 centimetres (that's a foot in old money).

📒 money that is earned very easily, for something that needs little effort

  • The job only took about an hour—it was money for old rope.

📒 an older person who behaves in a stupid way is worse than a younger person who does the same thing, because experience should have taught him or her not to do it

📒 in or since past times

  • in days of old
  • We know him of old (= we have known him for a long time).

📒 used by older men of the middle and upper classes as a friendly way of addressing another man

📒 very much older than somebody (especially used to suggest that a romantic or sexual relationship between the two people is not appropriate)

📒 old enough to behave in a more sensible way than you actually did

📒 used to describe a young person who acts in a more sensible way than you would expect for a person of their age

📒 what usually happens

  • It's the same old story of a badly managed project with inadequate funding.

📒 an old idea or belief that people now know is not correct

📒 an old-fashioned person who likes to do things as they were done in the past

📒 an age that is considered to be very old

  • He lived to the ripe old age of 91.

📒 to hurt or punish somebody who has harmed or cheated you in the past

  • ‘Who would do such a thing?’ ‘Maybe someone with an old score to settle.’
  • An embittered Charlotte is determined to settle accounts with Elizabeth.

📒 (you cannot) successfully make people change their ideas, methods of work, etc., when they have had them for a long time

📒 very strong and able to deal successfully with difficult conditions or situations

  • She’s almost 90 but she’s still as tough as old boots.
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