old

old (http://definr.com/old)

     adj 1: (used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively
            long time or attained a specific age; especially not
            young; "an old man's eagle mind"- William Butler
            Yeats; "his mother is very old"; "a ripe old age";
            "how old are you?"; often used as a combining form to
            indicate an age as specified as in "a week-old infant"
            [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: (linguistics) 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" [syn: Old]
     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")