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Definición de old en inglés:


Saltos de línea: old
Pronunciación: /əʊld

adjetivo (older, oldest)

  • 3.1 [as noun, in combination] A person or animal of the age specified: a nineteen-year-old
  • 4 [attributive] informal Used to express affection, familiarity, or contempt: good old Mum I didn’t like playing with silly old dolls
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any old

Any item of a specified type (used to show that no particular individual is in question): any old room would have done
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any old how

In no particular order: they’ve dropped things just any old how
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  • They were owned animals and presumably valuable livestock that just did not happen any old how but were deliberately bought and raised by a farmer.
  • Everything's just plonked down any old how, without any coherent alphabetical system to guide you round.
  • They drew up ten artists she liked, made a list of what they know about Diana, and then joined up the two lists any old how.

as old as the hills

Very old (often used in exaggerated statements): the technology we’re using is as old as the hills
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be old enough to be someone's father (or mother)

informal Be much older than someone (used to suggest that a romantic or sexual relationship between the people concerned is inappropriate): he was furious with her for wasting herself on a man old enough to be her father
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for old times' sake

see sake1.

of old

  • 1In or belonging to the past: he was more reticent than of old
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  • 2For a long time: they knew him of old

the old days

A period in the past, typically regarded as significantly better or worse than the present: it was easier in the old days we are less confident than in the good old days
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the Old Firm

informal (In Scotland) a name for Celtic and Rangers Football Clubs: [as modifier]: an Old Firm match

you can't put an old head on young shoulders

proverb You can’t expect a young person to have the wisdom or maturity associated with older people.



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Old English ald, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch oud and German alt, from an Indo-European root meaning 'adult', shared by Latin alere 'nourish'.

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