Adjective
1. (used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age; especially not young; often used as a combining form to indicate an age as specified as in `a week-old baby';
"an old man's eagle mind"--William Butler Yeats"his mother is very old""a ripe old age""how old are you?"2. of long duration; not new;
"old tradition""old house""old wine""old country""old friendships""old money"3. of an earlier time;
"his old classmates"4. (used for emphasis) very familiar;
"good old boy""same old story"5. lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new;
"moth-eaten theories about race"6. just preceding something else in time or order;
"the previous owner""my old house was larger"7. old in experience;
"an old offender""the older soldiers"8. used informally especially for emphasis;
"a real honest-to-god live cowboy""had us a high old time""went upriver to look at a sure-enough fish wheel"