Meaning of old in English

Meanwhile, the state granted tracts of land to nobles or permitted them to purchase land in what had become the old borderlands.

It is based on a one-year qualitative research project, which seeks to explore the experiences of social dance for older dancers.

Specifically, the younger children might be expected to show greater phonetic sensitivity to the input than older children.

Any categorisation of chronological age obscures the physiological, psychological and social diversity of older people.

The unsatisfactory housing of these older people can be expected to have consequences for their physical and psychological well-being.

Psychological distress among older primary care attenders is associated with frequent attendance.

A group of 27 older adults in inpatient rehabilitation were interviewed during the programme and after returning home.

Science advances by replacing old theories with new ones that make better predictions.

This does seem to be a somewhat anthropocentric viewpoint and one, moreover, that effectively replaces the old culture/nature dualism with a human/non-human dualism.

Some fences have been replaced and moved compared to older maps, but it is still quite easy to recognize the localities from former studies.

Perhaps only older children understand indirect requests as observers.

This new policy contrasts clearly with the party's old policy, which rarely reflected the interests of consumers.

Over the past five years older children have become unruly.

That older actresses play fewer roles than older men is perhaps not surprising.

Training should be multidisciplinary and multi-agency and involve older people and carers to develop a shared understanding of roles and needs.

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