old

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   skilled through long experience

   an old offender

2. 2
   adj

   having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age

   Your siblings are both very old.

3. 3
   noun

   past times

   In days of old, I could've been a traveling photographer.

4. 4
   adj

   of a very early stage in development

   Old English is also called Anglo Saxon

5. 5
   adj

   Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time.

   an old abandoned building

6. 6
   adj

   Having been used and thus no longer new or unused.

   I find that an old toothbrush is good to clean the keyboard with.

7. 7
   adj

   Having existed or lived for the specified time.

   How old are they? She’s five years old and he's seven. We also have a young teen and a two-year-old child.

8. 8
   adj

   Of an earlier time.

   My new car is not as good as my old one.  a school reunion for Old Etonians

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English old, oold, from Old English ald, eald (“old, aged, ancient, antique, primeval”), from Proto-West Germanic *ald, from Proto-Germanic *aldaz (“grown-up”), originally a participle form, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eltós (“grown, tall, big”). Cognates Cognate with Scots aald, auld (“old”), Yola yola, yolaw, yold, yole (“old”), North Frisian ool, ual, uuil, uul, üülj (“old”), Saterland Frisian oold (“old”), West Frisian âld (“old”), Alemannic German altu, oalt, oalts, olt, àltà (“old”), Bavarian oid (“old”), Central Franconian alt, aod, auw, oot (“old”), Cimbrian, Germ…