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say it: ohld
old is an adjective and noun meaning "(used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age". It is pronounced /ˈoʊld/ — ohld. It carries 9 recorded senses.
of long duration; not new
“old tradition”
“old house”
“old wine”
“old country”
“old friendships”
“old money”
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”
linguistics
past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old')
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for old come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.