Main entry: old
Definition: of long duration; not new
Usage: old tradition; old house; old wine; old country; old friendships; old money
Antonyms: new
Definition: not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered
Antonyms: break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, aurora, first light, morning, dawn, dawning, daybreak, dayspring, sunrise, sunup
Definition: the first light of day
Antonyms: misused
Definition: used incorrectly or carelessly or for an improper purpose
Main entry: 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?
Definition: (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth
Definition: young people collectively
Antonyms: junior
Definition: younger; lower in rank; shorter in length of tenure or service
Main entry: 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
Antonyms: hereafter, time to come, future, futurity
Definition: the time yet to come
Antonyms: future
Definition: yet to be or coming
Antonyms: present
Definition: temporal sense; intermediate between past and future; now existing or happening or in consideration
Main entry: old
Definition: (used for emphasis) very familiar
Usage: good old boy; same old story
Antonyms: unfamiliar
Definition: not known or well known
Definition: being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird
Main entry: previous, old
Definition: just preceding something else in time or order
Usage: the previous owner; my old house was larger
Antonyms: succeeding
Definition: coming after or following
Main entry: 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
Antonyms: middle
Definition: between an earlier and a later period of time
Antonyms: late
Definition: being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time
Definition: at or toward an end or late period or stage of development
Antonyms: middle
Definition: of a stage in the development of a language or literature between earlier and later stages
Antonyms: late
Definition: of a later stage in the development of a language or literature; used especially of dead languages
Antonyms: tardily, late, belatedly
Definition: later than usual or than expected
Main entry: old, older
Definition: skilled through long experience
Usage: an old offender; the older soldiers
Antonyms: inexperienced, inexperient
Definition: lacking practical experience or training
Main entry: 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
Antonyms: imitative, counterfeit
Definition: not genuine; imitating something superior