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I . old <-er, -est> [əʊld, Am oʊld] ADJ

3. old (former):

old

4. old (long known):

old friend
old friend

II . old [əʊld, Am oʊld] N (elderly people)

Old Bill N no pl Brit inf

old boy N

1. old boy Brit inf (old man):

old boy

2. old boy Aus, Brit (former pupil):

old boy

old-established [ˌəʊldɪˈstæblɪʃt] ADJ

old-fashioned [ˌəʊldˈfæʃnd] ADJ pej

2. old-fashioned (traditional):

old flame N inf

old girl N

1. old girl Brit inf (old woman):

old girl

2. old girl Aus, Brit (former pupil):

old girl

old lady N inf (one's wife, mother)

old maid N pej

old-maidish [ˌəʊldˈmeɪdɪʃ] ADJ pej

old man N inf (husband, father)

old-timer [ˈəʊldtaɪməɐ, Am ˈoʊldtaɪmɚ] N Am inf

old people's home N

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English
I think old graphics were unbelievably more beautiful than what we have today.
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In the 1993 currency reform, 1 nouveau zaire was exchanged for 3,000,000 old zaires.
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She was born into a yachting family and was taken sailing for the first time when only a few weeks old.
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The old prison bakery was converted into the women's prison to accommodate this new role.
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Launched in 1913, her hull and inner workings were nearing twenty years old.
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There, a little old man dressed in tight leggings and a thin shirt wearing a cap with a feather approached him.
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Nobles accused him of trying to change the old ways, and even managed to find fault with the building codes.
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The movie evidently swerves from old-hat, cut-and-dried storylines that many scary movies offer.
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If your five-year-old body and your seventy-year-old body consist of different matter, then what makes them the same body?
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Housing crises in big cities and the industrialization of remote areas required mass housing construction, development of new territories and reconstruction of old cities.
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