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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun old has 1 sense

• old(n = noun.time) - past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old');
is a kind of past, past times, yesteryear

Adjective old has 8 senses

• old(a = adj.all) - (used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age; "his mother is very old"; "a ripe old age"; "how old are you?"
Derived form noun oldness₁
Antonym: young

• old(a = adj.all) - of long duration; not new; "old tradition"; "old house"; "old wine"; "old country"; "old friendships"; "old money"
Antonym: new
Derived form noun oldness₂

• old(s = adj.all) - (used for emphasis) very familiar; "good old boy"; "same old story"
• old(s = adj.all) older - skilled through long experience; "an old offender"; "the older soldiers"
• old(s = adj.all) erstwhile, former, one-time, onetime, quondam, sometime - belonging to some prior time; "erstwhile friend"; "our former glory"; "the once capital of the state"; "her quondam lover"
• old(s = adj.all) honest-to-god, honest-to-goodness, sure-enough - (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"
• old(s = adj.all) - 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"
• old(s = adj.all) previous - just preceding something else in time or order; "the previous owner"; "my old house was larger"

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old

adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an _old man_. Discredited by lapse of time and offensive to the popular taste, as an _old_ book.

"Old books? The devil take them!" Goby said.
"Fresh every day must be my books and bread."
Nature herself approves the Goby rule
And gives us every moment a fresh fool.
Harley Shum

THESAURUS

old

abandoned, abjured, adult, advanced, advanced in life, advanced in years, age-old, aged, ageless, along in years, ancient, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, archaic, auld, big, blase, bygone, constant, continuing, cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, dated, dateless, demode, deserted, discontinued, disused, done with, early, elderly, enduring, erstwhile, established, experienced, firm, fore, former, getting on, gray, gray with age, gray-haired, gray-headed, grown, grown old, grown-up, hoar, hoary, immemorial, inveterate, knowing, late, lifelong, long-lived, marriable, marriageable, mature, matured, maturescent, not born yesterday, not worth saving, nubile, obsolescent, obsolete, of age, of marriageable age, of old, of yore, old as Methuselah, old as history, old as time, old-fashioned, old-time, old-timey, olden, oldfangled, on the shelf, once, onetime, out, out of use, out-of-date, outdated, outmoded, outworn, overage, passe, past, past use, patriarchal, pensioned off, perennial, perpetual, practical, practiced, prehistoric, previous, primeval, primitive, prior, quondam, recent, relinquished, renounced, resigned, retired, ripe, ripened, sagacious, seasoned, senectuous, skilled, solid, sometime, sophisticated, staying, steady, superannuate, superannuated, superseded, then, timeless, timeworn, traditional, tried, tried and true, venerable, versed, vet, veteran, whilom, white, white with age, white-bearded, white-crowned, white-haired, world-wise, worldly, worldly-wise, worn-out, wrinkled, wrinkly, years old

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Oldness

N oldness, age, antiquity, cobwebs of antiquity, maturity, decline, decay, senility, seniority, eldership, primogeniture, archaism, thing of the past, relic of the past, megatherium, Sanskrit, tradition, prescription, custom, immemorial usage, common law, old, ancient, antique, of long standing, time-honored, venerable, elder, eldest, firstborn, prime, primitive, primeval, primigenous, paleolontological, paleontologic, paleoanthropological, paleoanthropic, paleolithic, primordial, primordinate, aboriginal, diluvian, antediluvian, protohistoric, prehistoric, antebellum, colonial, precolumbian, patriarchal, preadamite, paleocrystic, fossil, paleozoolical, paleozoic, preglacial, antemundane, archaic, classic, medieval, Pre-Raphaelite, ancestral, black-letter, immemorial, traditional, prescriptive, customary, whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contr, inveterate, rooted, antiquated, of other times, rococo, of the old school, after-age, obsolete, out of date, out of fashion, out of it, stale, old-fashioned, behind the age, old-world, exploded, gone out, gone by, passe, run out, senile, time worn, crumbling, secondhand, old as the hills, old as Methuselah, old as Adam, old as history, Archeozoic, Proterozoic, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic, Precambrian, Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Mississippian, Pennsylvanian, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, Tertiary, Paleogene, Neocene, Quaternary, Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene, Recent, since the world was made, since the year one, since the days of Methuselah, vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.

Age

N age, oldness, old age, advanced age, golden years, senility, senescence, years, anility, gray hairs, climacteric, grand climacteric, declining years, decrepitude, hoary age, caducity, superannuation, second childhood, second childishness, dotage, vale of years, decline of life, sear and yellow leaf, threescore years and ten, green old age, ripe age, longevity, time of life, seniority, eldership, elders, firstling, doyen, father, primogeniture, geriatrics, nostology, aged, old, elderly, geriatric, senile, matronly, anile, in years, ripe, mellow, run to seed, declining, waning, past one's prime, gray, gray-headed, hoar, hoary, venerable, time-worn, antiquated, passe, effete, decrepit, superannuated, advanced in life, advanced in years, stricken in years, wrinkled, marked withthe crow's foot, having one foot in the grave, doting, like the last of pea time, older, elder, eldest, senior, firstborn, turned of, years old, of a certain age, no chicken, old as Methuselah, ancestral, patriarchal, gerontic, give me a staff of honor for my age, bis pueri senes, peu de gens savent elre vieux, plenus annis abiit plenus honoribus, old age is creeping on apace, slow-consuming age, the hoary head is a crown of glory, the silver livery of advised age, to grow old gracefully, to vanish in the chinks that Time has made.

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RELATED WORDS : fairy tale folk tale heroic tale old wives' tale tall tale twice told tale

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun tale has 2 senses

• tale(n = noun.communication) narration, narrative, story - a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program; "his narrative was interesting"; "Disney's stories entertain adults as well as children"
has particulars: tearjerker, tall tale, folk tale, folktale, sob story, sob stuff, fairy story, fairy tale, fairytale, nursery rhyme, canterbury tales
is a kind of content, message, subject matter, substance
Derived forms verb tell₂, verb tell₃

• tale(n = noun.communication) fib, story, taradiddle, tarradiddle - a trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach"; "how can I stop my child from telling stories?"
is a kind of lie, prevarication
has particulars: cock-and-bull story, fairy story, fairy tale, fairytale, song and dance

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THESAURUS

tale

account, aggregate, all, amount, anecdotage, anecdote, back-fence gossip, backbiting, backstabbing, be-all and end-all, belittlement, blague, box score, calumny, canard, cast, chitchat, chronicle, cock-and-bull story, count, defamation, depreciation, difference, disparagement, entirety, enumerate, epic, epos, exaggeration, fabrication, fairy tale, falsehood, falsification, falsity, farfetched story, farrago, fib, fiction, fish story, flam, flimflam, ghost story, gossip, gossiping, gossipmongering, gossipry, groundless rumor, half-truth, history, idle talk, legal fiction, libel, lie, little white lie, mendacity, misrepresentation, myth, narration, narrative, newsmongering, number, numerate, piece of gossip, pious fiction, prevarication, product, quantity, recital, reckoning, record, report, rumor, saga, scandal, score, scuttlebutt, slander, slight stretching, story, sum, sum total, summation, talebearing, taletelling, talk, tall story, tall tale, tally, taradiddle, tattle, tell, the bottom line, the story, the whole story, tittle-tattle, total, totality, tote, trumped-up story, untruth, white lie, whole, x number, yam, yarn

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Description

N description, account, statement, report, expose, specification, particulars, state of facts, summary of facts, brief, return, catalogue raisonne, guidebook, delineation, sketch, monograph, minute account, detailed particular account, circumstantial account, graphic account, narration, recital, rehearsal, relation, historiography, chronography, historic Muse, Clio, history, biography, autobiography, necrology, obituary, narrative, history, memoir, memorials, annals, saga, tradition, legend, story, tale, historiette, personal narrative, journal, life, adventures, fortunes, experiences, confessions, anecdote, ana, trait, work of fiction, novel, romance, Minerva press, fairy tale, nursery tale, fable, parable, apologue, dime novel, penny dreadful, shilling shocker relator, raconteur, historian, biographer, fabulist, novelist, descriptive, graphic, narrative, epic, suggestive, well-drawn, historic, traditional, traditionary, legendary, anecdotic, storied, described, furor scribendi.

Numeration

N numeration, numbering, pagination, tale, recension, enumeration, summation, reckoning, computation, supputation, calculation, calculus, algorithm, algorism, rhabdology, dactylonomy, measurement, statistics, arithmetic, analysis, algebra, geometry, analytical geometry, fluxions, differential calculus, integral calculus, infinitesimal calculus, calculus of differences, dead reckoning, muster, poll, census, capitation, roll call, recapitulation, account, notation, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, rule of three, practice, equations, extraction of roots, reduction, involution, evolution, estimation, approximation, interpolation, differentiation, integration, abacus, logometer, slide rule, slipstick, tallies, Napier's bones, calculating machine, difference engine, suan- pan, adding machine, cash register, electronic calculator, calculator, computer, arithmetician, calculator, abacist, algebraist, mathematician, statistician, geometer, programmer, accountant, auditor, numeral, numerical, arithmetical, analytic, algebraic, statistical, numerable, computable, calculable, commensurable, commensurate, incommensurable, incommensurate, innumerable, unfathomable, infinite, quantitatively, arithmetically, measurably, in numbers.

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