old

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
/əʊld/|[ɒʊɫd]|/əwld/|[ɔw(ɫ)d]|/ˈɔld/    /ˈoʊld/|[ˈoːɫd]|/əʉld/|[əʉɫd]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. People who are old; old beings; the older generation, taken as a group. countable,invariable,plural,plural-only,uncountable
    — A civilised society should always look after the old in the community.
  2. A person older than oneself, especially an adult in relation to a teenager. countable,slang,uncountable
    — Near-synonyms: geezer, oldie, oldster; see also Thesaurus:old person
  3. One's parents. countable,slang,uncountable
    — I had to sneak out to meet my girlfriend and tell the olds I was going to the library.
  4. A typically dark-coloured lager brewed by the traditional top-fermentation method. Australia,uncountable
    — We crossed to the pub on the corner of Carlisle Street and I ordered two schooners of old for him and one of light for me.
形容词 adj.
  1. Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time.
    — an old abandoned building
  2. Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time.; Of a living being, having lived for most of the expected years.
    — a wrinkled old man
  3. Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time.; Of a perishable item, having existed for most of, or more than, its shelf life.
    — an old loaf of bread
  4. Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time.; Of a species or language, belonging to a lineage that is distantly related to others.
    — the ginkgo is one of the oldest living trees
  5. Having been used and thus no longer new or unused.
    — I find that an old toothbrush is good to clean the keyboard with.
  6. 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.
  7. Of an earlier time.; Former, previous.
    — My new car is not as good as my old one.  a school reunion for Old Etonians
  8. Of an earlier time.; That is no longer in existence.
    — The footpath follows the route of an old railway line.
  9. Of an earlier time.; Obsolete; out-of-date.
    — That is the old way of doing things; now we do it this way.
  10. Of an earlier time.; Familiar.
    — When he got drunk and quarrelsome they just gave him the old heave-ho.
  11. Of an earlier time.; Being a graduate or alumnus of a school, especially a public school. UK
  12. Tiresome after prolonged repetition.
    — Rik: But even great shtick can get old real fast: the dreaded Saturday Night Live syndrome. Jim: Randomness can help - many Living Books have characters that do different things each time you click on them.
  13. Said of subdued colors, particularly reds, pinks and oranges, as if they had faded over time.
  14. A grammatical intensifier, often used in describing something positive, and combined with another adjective.
    — We're having a good old time.
  15. Indicating affection and familiarity. informal
    — Finally, when they were all done slobbering around, old Sally introduced us.
  16. Designed for a mature audience; unsuitable for children below a certain age.
    — Monsieur's story is too old for our Juvenile Magazine.
  17. Excessive, abundant. obsolete
    — URSULA: Madam, you must come to your uncle. Yonder's old coil at home: it is proved, my Lady Hero hath been falsely accused, the prince and Claudio mightily abused;

词形变化

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old me make old bones money for old rope new old stock new wine in an old bottle new wine in an old wineskin nonold of old ol' Old Aberdeen Old Adam Old Adaminaby Old Age old-age old age pension old age pensioner old-age pensioner Old Akkadian old ale Old Alresford Old Anatolian Turkic Old Anatolian Turkish Old Aramaic Old Armenian old army game old as Adam oldass Old Assyrian old as the hills older than the hills old as the Pyramids old as time old as time itself Old Babylonian old bachelor old bag old ball old banger Old Bar Old Barag Old Basford Old Basing Old Beach old bean Old Bering Sea oldbie Old Blighty Old Blue Old Bolingbroke Old Bonalbo old boy old boyism old-boyism old boy network old-boy network old boys' club Old Brampton old broad Old Bulatukan Old Bulgarian Oldbury Old Calperum Old Capitol Site Old Castile old cat Old Catton old chap old chestnut Old Church Slavic Old Church Slavonic Old City Old Cleeve old-clothesman old clothesman old cocoyam old codger old college try Old Colwyn oldcomer Old Cooranga Old Coulsdon old country Old Cumnock Old Czech old days old dear Old Deer Old Denaby Old Dutch old Earth creationism old-earth creationism Old Egyptian Old Elvish olden Old English old English Carrier Old English sheepdog old enough to vote older adult older-aged older brother Old Erowal Bay older sister older than dirt older than the Pyramids oldest occupation oldest profession oldest profession in the world oldfag oldfangled old-fangled old-farrand old-farrant old fart old fartism old-fashion old-fashioned old fashioned old fashioned glass old-fashioned look old-fashionedly old-fashionedness old fellow old-field colt old flame Old Flemish old fogey old fogy old folks old folks' home Old Ford old for one's years old franc Old Franconian Old Frankish Old French old friend Old Frisian old fruit old gentleman old girl Old Glory old gold old gown Old Greenwich Old Grevillia old-growth old growth old-growth forest old guard old guardism old guardist Old Guildford Old Gutnish old habits die hard old hag syndrome old hand Old Harbour old hat old-hat oldhead old head old head on young shoulders Old Hickory Old High German Old Hill oldhood old horse Old Icelandic oldies oldify Old Indic Old Indo-Aryan Old Ingarsby old in the tooth Old Ionic Old Iranian Old Irish oldish Old Jamestown Old Junee Old Kaabakan Old Kent Road Old Khmer Old Kilpatrick old lace old lady old lang syne Old Latin Old Leake old-line oldline oldling old long syne Old Low Franconian Old Low Frankish Old Low German oldly Old Lyme old maid old-maidenism old-maidhood old-maidish old-maidism old maid's bonnet old-man old man Old Man of Coniston old man of the woods old man's beard old man's drip old man's eyebrow old man's friend old man's pepper old man yelling at a cloud old man yelling at cloud old man yelling at clouds old man yelling at the clouds old man yells at cloud Old Marathi Old Marston old master old mate old media Old Milan Old Mill Old Mill Creek Old Milton Old Milverton old money old moon Old National Pronunciation oldness old news Old Nick Old Noarlunga Old Norse Old North Old North French Old North State Old Norwegian Old Nubian Old Oak Common old-oil old-old Old Orchard Beach Old Passage old penny old people old people's home Old Persian Old Plains Old Poblacion Oldport Old Port Old Provençal Old Prussian Old Radnor old ral Old Ravensworth old regime Old Reynella Old Rizal old rose Old Russian olds old salt Old San Jose Old Sarum old saw Old Saxon Old Saybrook Old Scandinavian old school old-school oldshit old shoe old-shoe Old Shoreham old sight old sins cast long shadows old sins have long shadows old skool Old Slavic Old Slavonic Old Slovak old sod old soldier oldsome old song old soul Old Sour old sourdough Old South oldspeak old sport oldsquaw old squaw old stager Old Station old stick Old Stratford old-style Old Swan old-sweat old sweat Old Talgai Old Tallangatta Old Teal Flat Old Testament old thing old time old-time old-time country old-time music old timer old-timer old-timer's disease old timers' disease old timer's disease old-timers' disease old time used to be old-timey old timey old-timy old toast Old Toongabbie old top oldtown old town old tyme old use Old Warden Old Web Old Welsh old wife old-wifish Old Windsor old wine in a new bottle old wine in new bottles old wives' tale old wivish old-wivish Old Woking Old Wolverton old woman old-womanish old-womanishly old woman's tooth Old Woodhall old-world Old World oldy ole one-year-old over-old pay off old scores plain old plain old data plain old telephone service poor old put new wine in old bottles rake over old coals reopen old wounds ripe old age same old same old-same old same-old same-old same old same old same old same-old same old story same old stuff some old Some Old Hippie Caught Another Hippie Tripping On Acid superold that old dog won't hunt the oldest trick in the book the old woman is plucking her goose there's life in the old dog yet there's many a good tune played on an old fiddle there's no fool like an old fool thousand-year-old egg time of old today years old tough as old boots tune the old cow died of up to one's old tricks what's old is new again world-old world's oldest profession year-old ye olde you are never too old to learn you can't catch old birds with chaff you can't put an old head on young shoulders you can't teach an old dog new tricks you're never too old to learn

词源

词源 1
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 and German alt (“old”), Dutch oud (“old”), German Low German old, oolt (“old”), Luxembourgish al (“old”), Mòcheno òlt (“old”), Vilamovian aołd (“old”), Yiddish אַלט (alt, “old”), Danish ældre (“elderly”), Faroese eldri (“elder, older”), Icelandic aldinn (“old”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk eldre (“elderly”), Swedish äldre (“elderly”), Crimean Gothic alt (“old”), Gothic 𐌰𐌻𐌸𐌴𐌹𐍃 (alþeis, “old”), Latin altus (“high, tall, grown big, lofty”). Related to eld.
词源 2
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 and German alt (“old”), Dutch oud (“old”), German Low German old, oolt (“old”), Luxembourgish al (“old”), Mòcheno òlt (“old”), Vilamovian aołd (“old”), Yiddish אַלט (alt, “old”), Danish ældre (“elderly”), Faroese eldri (“elder, older”), Icelandic aldinn (“old”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk eldre (“elderly”), Swedish äldre (“elderly”), Crimean Gothic alt (“old”), Gothic 𐌰𐌻𐌸𐌴𐌹𐍃 (alþeis, “old”), Latin altus (“high, tall, grown big, lofty”). Related to eld.
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