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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?" [ant: young]

2: of long duration; not new; "old tradition"; "old house"; "old wine"; "old country"; "old friendships"; "old money" [ant: new]

3: of an earlier time; "his old classmates"

4: (used for emphasis) very familiar; "good old boy"; "same old story" [syn: {old(a)}]

5: lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new; "moth-eaten theories about race" [syn: stale, moth-eaten]

6: just preceding something else in time or order; "the previous owner"; "my old house was larger" [syn: {previous(a)}]

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"

8: old in experience; "an old offender"; "the older soldiers" [syn: older]

9: 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" [syn: honest-to-god, honest-to-goodness, {old(a)}, {sure-enough(a)}] n : past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old')