- old
- adj.1 ageVERBS▪ be, feel, look, seem▪
You are as old as you feel.
ADVERB▪ enough▪He's old enough by now to manage his own affairs.
PHRASES▪ six months, ten years, etc. old2 not youngVERBS▪ be, feel, look, seem, sound▪The way the young people rushed around made her feel old.
▪He was beginning to look old.
▪ become, get, grow▪We're all getting older.
▪As they grow older, they develop new interests.
ADVERB▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc.▪She was fairly old when she got married.
3 not newVERBS▪ beADVERB▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc.▪It's a very old tradition.
PHRASES▪ oldest known▪These are some of the oldest known fossil remains.
▪ oldest remaining, oldest surviving▪It's one of the oldest remaining parts of the church.
▪the world's oldest surviving ship
4 shows affection/lack of respectPHRASES▪ boring old, silly old (esp. BrE)▪boring old history books
▪He's a silly old fool!
▪ dear old, good old▪Good old Dad!
▪ funny old▪It's a funny old world.
▪ plain old▪Why drink plain old water when you can have something better?
▪ poor old▪You poor old thing!
▪ same old▪It's always the same old faces.
Old is used with these nouns: ↑acquaintance, ↑adversary, ↑age, ↑ally, ↑armchair, ↑associate, ↑beam, ↑boyfriend, ↑building, ↑cellar, ↑chap, ↑city, ↑civilization, ↑classic, ↑cliché, ↑client, ↑clothes, ↑convention, ↑copy, ↑couple, ↑custom, ↑customer, ↑day, ↑distinction, ↑dogma, ↑enemy, ↑English, ↑enmity, ↑face, ↑family, ↑father, ↑favourite, ↑fellow, ↑feud, ↑foe, ↑folk, ↑fool, ↑forest, ↑friend, ↑friendship, ↑gag, ↑garbage, ↑girlfriend, ↑grievance, ↑ground, ↑grudge, ↑guy, ↑habit, ↑haunt, ↑home, ↑hotel, ↑hymn, ↑idea, ↑injury, ↑inn, ↑joke, ↑junk, ↑lady, ↑legend, ↑magazine, ↑male, ↑man, ↑manor, ↑mansion, ↑manuscript, ↑maxim, ↑memory, ↑monastery, ↑mother, ↑mould, ↑movie, ↑mythology, ↑nation, ↑news, ↑order, ↑paint, ↑people, ↑person, ↑photograph, ↑ploy, ↑prejudice, ↑quarrel, ↑quarter, ↑rag, ↑recipe, ↑record, ↑recording, ↑regime, ↑relative, ↑religion, ↑remedy, ↑resentment, ↑rhyme, ↑rival, ↑rivalry, ↑road, ↑romantic, ↑routine, ↑rubbish, ↑ruin, ↑rule, ↑saying, ↑self, ↑shack, ↑shoe, ↑skill, ↑slipper, ↑slogan, ↑sneaker, ↑sock, ↑soldier, ↑soul, ↑sparkle, ↑spectre, ↑stock, ↑student, ↑style, ↑superstition, ↑T-shirt, ↑tale, ↑tenement, ↑thing, ↑thinking, ↑time, ↑town, ↑tradition, ↑tree, ↑trick, ↑trunk, ↑tune, ↑tyre, ↑uncle, ↑variety, ↑veteran, ↑village, ↑volume, ↑warehouse, ↑way, ↑widow, ↑wine, ↑woman, ↑world, ↑wound
Collocations dictionary. 2013.
