old /oʊld/
1. past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old')
synset: old
1. (used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age; "his mother is very old"; "a ripe old age"; "how old are you?"
synset: old
2. of long duration; not new; "old tradition"; "old house"; "old wine"; "old country"; "old friendships"; "old money"
synset: old
3. (used for emphasis) very familiar; "good old boy"; "same old story"
synset: old
4. skilled through long experience; "an old offender"; "the older soldiers"
5. belonging to some prior time; "erstwhile friend"; "our former glory"; "the once capital of the state"; "her quondam lover"
synset: erstwhile, former, old, onetime, one-time, quondam, sometime
6. very good; "he did a bully job"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing"; "we had a grand old time"
synset: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not_bad, peachy, slap-up, swell, smashing, old
7. of a very early stage in development; "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"
synset: Old
8. just preceding something else in time or order; "the previous owner"; "my old house was larger"
Princeton University "About WordNet." WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.
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