Having lived for many years not young;
Used to talk about or ask about a person's age
Definition of old adjective in oxford advanced learner's dictionary.
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Having lived or existed for many years:
Unsuitable because intended for older people:
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You use old to refer to something that is no longer used, that no longer exists, or that has been replaced by something else.
The old road had disappeared under grass and heather.
Made long ago;
In existence for many years.
Having lived or existed for many years:
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Where old expresses an absolute, an arrival at old age, older takes a more relative view of aging as a continuum—older, but not yet old.
As such, older is not just a euphemism for the blunter.
Far advanced in the years of one's or its life.
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Some common synonyms of old are ancient, antiquated, antique, archaic, obsolete, and venerable.
While all these words mean having come into existence or use in the more or less.