Main entry: old
Definition: past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old')
Definition: just preceding something else in time or order
Usage: the previous owner; my old house was larger
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
Definition: skilled through long experience
Usage: an old offender; the older soldiers
Main entry: old
Definition: (used for emphasis) very familiar
Usage: good old boy; same old story
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
Main entry: old
Definition: of long duration; not new
Usage: old tradition; old house; old wine; old country; old friendships; old money
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?
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