old maid in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

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maid [Am meɪd, Brit meɪd] N

See also old maid

I.old [Am oʊld, Brit əʊld] ADJ

1. old (of certain age):

how old are you?
¿cuántos años tienes?
how old are you?
¿qué edad tienes?
he's 10 years old
tiene 10 años
she's two years older than me
me lleva dos años
she's two years older than me
es dos años mayor que yo
my older brother
mi hermano mayor
our oldest son
nuestro hijo mayor
when the children are older
cuando los niños sean mayores or más grandes
day-/week-old chicks
pollitos mpl de un día/de una semana
a month-old puppy
un cachorro de un mes
the house is centuries old
la casa tiene siglos
my two-year-old daughter
mi hija de dos años
a group of fifteen-year-/six-year-olds
un grupo de quinceañeros/de niños de seis años
she's not old enough to go to school
no tiene edad de ir a la escuela
you're old enough to know better!
¡a tu edad …!
he's old enough to be her father
podría ser su padre
you're as old as you feel
lo importante es tener el espíritu joven

II.old [Am oʊld, Brit əʊld] N

old maid in the PONS Dictionary

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I.old [əʊld, Am oʊld] ADJ

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She played such diverse parts as a fussy old maid and a lady blacksmith.
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Spinster often implied that the woman was older than the age when most women traditionally marry and that she would probably never marry; a more derogatory term was old maid.
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Marry to escape the ridicule of being called an old maid?
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When playing with one card removed, this means one unique card is always the old maid instead of it possibly being any of the three remaining cards of that rank.
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Knuckle is never served to a young girl because of the belief that it will cause her to forever remain an old maid.
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The term is synonymous with old maid.
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Becoming an old maid was preferable to an incompatible union.
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She has been lonely so long that now she is an old maid and has never been wooed.
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The story states that this woman was an old maid and her clothes were borrowed because she was the only woman tall enough and large enough in the village.
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The unmatchable card becomes the old maid, and whoever holds it at the end of the game is the loser.
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