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oldUK:**UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations/ˈəʊld/US:USA pronunciation: IPA and respellingUSA pronunciation: IPA/oʊld/ ,USA pronunciation: respelling(ōld)
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old
‘old’ Old is most commonly used for describing the age of a person or thing. For example, you say that someone ‘is forty years old’. Legally, witnesses must at least fourteen years old. They found bits of bone which . You can also describe someone as, for example, ‘a forty-year-old man’. Don't say ‘a forty-years-old man’. She married a sixty-year-old man. Sue lives with John in the West Country. You can also say that someone is ‘a man of forty’. However, don't say ‘a man of forty years old’. Maya is a tall, strong woman of thirty. Actually, he looks good for . 'old' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
a
- among
- around
- as
- as ... as
- as if
- bath
- before
- believe
- bid
- boat
- breast
- Britain
- called
- care
- compare
- craft
- cry
- dead
- die
- different
- elderly
- enough
- even
- first name
- for
- friend
- grow
- habit
- have
- interested
- married
- not only
- one
- part
- receipt
- relation
- remain
- school
- seem
- shall
- short
- so
- such
- the
- them
- toilet
- waist
- wear
- widow
Forum discussions with the word(s) "old" in the title: -year-old or -Year-Old - English Only forum
?"an old, gray thermos flask made of a plastic shell and a mercury-coated inside, its cover the shape of a monk’s hat"? - English Only forum .......dressing as an old man/dressed as an old man - English Only forum ...are lower when people are exposed to the Sun versus in the shade,and for people over 65 years old... - English Only forum ...too old for me to deal with, he is already cooked... - English Only forum ...when the adoptee would be 18 years old - English Only forum ...years old /...-year-old - English Only forum ..as an old ewe - English Only forum 'an' or 'a' 18-year-old? - English Only forum 'it’ll be on' with the old Invisibility Cloak and 'off to' find out - English Only forum 'Like an old Jack Kramer stored without a press, permanently warped' - English Only forum 'old' in predicative function - English Only forum 'on top of this' they have an old mentality .... - English Only forum 'Twelve' or 'twelve years old'? - English Only forum ‘old stock’ citizenry - English Only forum ‘spectable old gentleman - English Only forum “I have” the old man said. - English Only forum “old boy” networks - English Only forum “Under one year old” versus “Less than one year old” - English Only forum “We have to retire our old car now. It has served its mission/job” - English Only forum (?) I'm as energetic as I was energetic when I was thirty years old. - English Only forum (a) one-year old child - English Only forum (I suppose) he <would be><would have been> about 30 years old when he died. - English Only forum (Poor old Muggins was such a bone between them) - English Only forum (the) 15-year-old Christina Gray - English Only forum (the) good old ... - English Only forum (the) Old Jennifer - English Only forum (the) old man - English Only forum (the) old Pharaoh - English Only forum (the) Old Trafford - English Only forum more...
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