Synonyms: old
Definition: past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old')
Similar words: past, past times, yesteryear
Definition: the time that has elapsed
Usage: forget the past
Definition: just preceding something else in time or order
Usage: the previous owner; my old house was larger
Similar words: preceding
Definition: existing or coming before
Synonyms: Old
Definition: of a very early stage in development
Usage: Old English is also called Anglo Saxon; Old High German is High German from the middle of the 9th to the end of the 11th century
Similar words: early
Definition: of an early stage in the development of a language or literature
Usage: the Early Hebrew alphabetical script is that used mainly from the 11th to the 6th centuries B.C.; Early Modern English is represented in documents printed from 1476 to 1700
Definition: skilled through long experience
Usage: an old offender; the older soldiers
Similar words: experienced, experient
Definition: having experience; having knowledge or skill from observation or participation
Synonyms: old
Definition: (used for emphasis) very familiar
Usage: good old boy; same old story
Similar words: familiar
Definition: well known or easily recognized
Usage: a familiar figure; familiar songs; familiar guests
Synonyms: honest-to-god, honest-to-goodness, sure-enough, old
Definition: (used informally especially for emphasis)
Usage: a real honest-to-god live cowboy; had us a high old time; went upriver to look at a sure-enough fish wheel
Definition: not fake or counterfeit
Usage: a genuine Picasso; genuine leather
Synonyms: old
Definition: of long duration; not new
Usage: old tradition; old house; old wine; old country; old friendships; old money
Similar words: antique, age-old
Definition: belonging to or lasting from times long ago
Usage: age-old customs; the antique fear that days would dwindle away to complete darkness
Similar words: antediluvian, antiquated, archaic
Definition: so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
Usage: a ramshackle antediluvian tenement; antediluvian ideas; archaic laws
Similar words: antique
Definition: made in or typical of earlier times and valued for its age
Usage: the beautiful antique French furniture
Similar words: auld
Definition: a Scottish word
Usage: auld lang syne
Similar words: hand-down, hand-me-down
Definition: passed on from one person to another
Usage: not too proud to wear hand-me-down clothes
Definition: ancient
Usage: hoary jokes
Similar words: immemorial
Definition: long past; beyond the limits of memory or tradition or recorded history
Usage: time immemorial
Similar words: long-ago
Definition: belonging to time long gone
Usage: those long-ago dresses that swished along the floor
Similar words: longtime
Definition: of long duration
Usage: a longtime friend
Similar words: patched
Definition: mended usually clumsily by covering a hole with a patch
Usage: patched jeans
Similar words: secondhand, used
Definition: previously used or owned by another
Usage: bought a secondhand (or used) car
Similar words: sunset
Definition: of a declining industry or technology
Usage: sunset industries
Similar words: yellow, yellowed
Definition: changed to a yellowish color by age
Usage: yellowed parchment
Synonyms: old
Definition: (used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age
Usage: his mother is very old; a ripe old age; how old are you?
Similar words: older, senior, aged, elderly
Definition: advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables)
Usage: aged members of the society; elderly residents could remember the construction of the first skyscraper; senior citizen
Definition: having attained a specific age; (`aged' is pronounced as one syllable)
Usage: aged ten; ten years of age
Similar words: ageing, aging, senescent
Definition: growing old
Similar words: ancient
Definition: very old
Usage: an ancient mariner
Similar words: anile
Definition: of or like a feeble old woman
Similar words: centenarian
Definition: being at least 100 years old
Similar words: darkened
Definition: (of fabrics and paper) grown dark in color over time
Usage: the darkened margins of the paper
Similar words: doddering, doddery, senile, gaga
Definition: mentally or physically infirm with age
Usage: his mother was doddering and frail
Similar words: emeritus
Definition: honorably retired from assigned duties and retaining your title along with the additional title `emeritus' as in `professor emeritus'
Similar words: white-haired, hoar, hoary, gray, gray-haired, gray-headed, grey, grey-haired, grey-headed, grizzly
Definition: showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair
Usage: whose beard with age is hoar-Coleridge; nodded his hoary head
Similar words: middle-aged
Definition: being roughly between 45 and 65 years old
Similar words: nonagenarian
Definition: being from 90 to 99 years old
Usage: the nonagenarian inhabitants of the nursing home
Similar words: octogenarian
Definition: being from 80 to 89 years old
Similar words: oldish
Definition: somewhat elderly
Similar words: over-the-hill, overage, overaged, superannuated
Definition: too old to be useful
Usage: He left the house...for the support of twelve superannuated wool carders- Anthony Trollope
Similar words: sexagenarian
Definition: being from 60 to 69 years old
Usage: the sexagenarian population is growing
Similar words: venerable
Definition: impressive by reason of age
Usage: a venerable sage with white hair and beard
Synonyms: old, one-time, onetime, former, erstwhile, quondam, sometime
Definition: belonging to some prior time
Usage: erstwhile friend; our former glory; the once capital of the state; her quondam lover
Similar words: past
Definition: earlier than the present time; no longer current
Usage: time past; his youth is past; this past Thursday; the past year