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old [oʊld, Brit əʊld] ADJ

2. old (former):

old job
anterior
old boyfriend
antigo namorado

3. old (not new):

old food, wine
velho(-a)
old furniture, house
antigo(-a)

4. old (not young):

old
velho(-a)
old people
pessoas idosas
to grow older
envelhecer

old age N no pl

old-fashioned ADJ

Usage examples with old

old boyfriend
antigo namorado
old people
pessoas idosas
old age
velhice f
old chap
meu camarada
(old) flame
(antiga) paixão f
old bag pej inf
velha f rabugenta
I'm seven years old
tenho sete anos
how old are you?
quantos anos você tem?
he's five years old
ele tem cinco anos
to reach old age
chegar à velhice
the old rope unraveled
a corda velha se desfez
to grow old
envelhecer
to be old-fashioned
ser antiquado
the Old/New Testament
o Velho/Novo Testamento
an old wreck (car)
um ferro m velho
to be one's old self
ser o mesmo de sempre
how old might she be?
quantos anos ela deve ter?
he is eight (years old)
ele tem oito anos
in the (good) old days
nos velhos (bons) tempos
he is eighty (years old)
ele tem oitenta anos

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English
The old and infirm who came to be healed, including children were trampled upon in the mass hysteria.
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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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How the actions involved in enactivism relate to age-old questions about free will remains a topic of active debate.
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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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They run up against mysterious regulatory investigations, go-slow bureaucratic practices and old-fashioned investment barriers that hamper their businesses.
www.afr.com
This is a celebration of what really can happen for every school in the country and beyond - every hospital, every old people's home, every business.
www.dailymail.co.uk
I think old graphics were unbelievably more beautiful than what we have today.
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The primary basis for eligibility was later changed to age, making the tournament open only to wrestlers who are 25 years old or younger.
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In the 1993 currency reform, 1 nouveau zaire was exchanged for 3,000,000 old zaires.
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The old prison bakery was converted into the women's prison to accommodate this new role.
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