old

1. 1.

   past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old')

   Broaderpast

Other forms of old

plural

olds·

comparative

older·

superlative

oldest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about old

What does old mean?

old means "(used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age". That is the primary sense; the word has 9 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in old?

old has 1 syllable: old. In IPA it is /ˈoʊld/.

What is another word for old?

Close synonyms include older, erstwhile, former, onetime, one-time. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of old?

The recorded antonyms are young, new.

Is old a common word?

old is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.