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{ "term": "old", "partOfSpeech": "adjectivenoun", "ox3000": true, "cefr": "a1", "definitions": [ { "senseNumber": 1, "definition": "of a particular age", "sensetop": "be… years, months, etc. old", "cefr": "a1", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "The baby was only a few hours old.", "contextForm": "be… years, months, etc. old" }, { "text": "In those days most people left school when they were only fifteen years old." }, { "text": "At thirty years old, he was already earning £40 000 a year." }, { "text": "two fourteen-year-old boys" }, { "text": "a class for five-year-olds *(= children who are five)*" }, { "text": "I didn't think she was **old enough** for the responsibility." }, { "text": "He's not **too old** to play Romeo." }, { "text": "**How old** is this building?" }, { "text": "He's the oldest player in the team." }, { "text": "She's much older than me." }, { "text": "My two older sisters and I shared a bedroom." }, { "text": "He's old enough by now to manage his own affairs." }, { "text": "You are as old as you feel." } ], "collocations": { "verbs": ["be", "feel", "look"], "adverb": ["enough"], "phrases": ["six months, ten years, etc. old"] } }, { "senseNumber": 2, "definition": "having lived for a long time; no longer young", "cefr": "a1", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "to **get/grow old**" }, { "text": "The old man lay propped up on cushions." }, { "text": "a little old lady" }, { "text": "She was a woman grown **old before her time** *(= who looked older than she was)*." }, { "text": "He was beginning to **look old**." }, { "text": "Tom was the last surviving member of the older generation of the family." }, { "text": "We were fairly old when we bought our first house." }, { "text": "The way the young people rushed about made her feel old." }, { "text": "She's getting old—she's 75 next year." }, { "text": "We're all getting older." } ], "topics": ["Life stages"], "collocations": { "verbs": ["be", "feel", "look"], "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"] } }, { "senseNumber": 3, "definition": "old people", "examples": [ { "text": "The old feel the cold more than the young." } ] }, { "senseNumber": 4, "definition": "having existed or been used for a long time", "labels": "British English", "cefr": "a1", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "old habits" }, { "text": "He always gives the **same old** excuses." }, { "text": "This carpet's getting pretty old now." }, { "text": "a beautiful old farmhouse" }, { "text": "It's a very old tradition." }, { "text": "It's one of the oldest remaining parts of the church." }, { "text": "It's the world's oldest surviving ship." }, { "text": "These are some of the oldest trees in the world." } ], "collocations": { "verbs": ["be"], "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"], "phrases": ["oldest known", "oldest remaining", "oldest surviving"] } }, { "senseNumber": 5, "definition": "former; belonging to past times or a past time in your life", "cefr": "a1", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "Things were different in **the old days**." }, { "text": "I went back to visit my old school." }, { "text": "Old and Middle English" }, { "text": "People are still clinging to the old ways of thinking." } ] }, { "senseNumber": 6, "definition": "used to refer to something that has been replaced by something else", "cefr": "a1", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "We had more room in our old house." }, { "text": "Mum and Dad bought us a fridge and gave us their old telly." } ] }, { "senseNumber": 7, "definition": "known for a long time", "cefr": "a1", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "She's an **old friend** of mine *(= I have known her for a long time)*." }, { "text": "We're old rivals." }, { "text": "It's always the same old faces." }, { "text": "The album includes both new titles and old favourites." } ] }, { "senseNumber": 8, "definition": "used to show kind feelings or a lack of respect", "labels": "(informal)", "examples": [ { "text": "**Good old** Dad!" }, { "text": "You **poor old** thing!" }, { "text": "I don't want to read that stupid old book anyway." }, { "text": "It's a funny old world." }, { "text": "Why drink plain old water when you can have something better?" }, { "text": "They were having the same boring old conversation about school." }, { "text": "As my dear old Grandma used to say…" } ], "collocations": { "phrases": ["boring old", "silly old", "dear old"] } }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "any item of the type mentioned (used when it is not important which particular item is chosen)", "labels": "(informal)", "examples": [ { "text": "Any old room would have done." } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "in a careless or untidy way", "labels": "(informal)", "examples": [ { "text": "The books were piled up all over the floor any old how." } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "very old; ancient", "examples": [] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "to be behaving in the same bad way as before", "labels": "(informal, disapproving)", "examples": [ { "text": "He had soon spent all the money and was up to his old tricks." } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "a person who is very similar to their mother or father in the way that they look or behave", "labels": "(informal)", "examples": [] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "if you do something for old times’ sake, you do it because it is connected with something good that happened to you in the past", "examples": [] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "to dismiss somebody from their job; to end a relationship with somebody", "labels": "(informal)", "examples": [] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "an earlier period of time in your life or in history that is seen as better/worse than the present", "examples": [ { "text": "That was in the bad old days of rampant inflation." } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "a great age", "examples": [ { "text": "She finally learned to drive at the grand old age of 70." } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "a man who is respected in a particular profession that he has been involved in for a long time", "examples": [ { "text": "James Lovelock, the grand old man of environmental science" } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "to enjoy yourself very much", "labels": "(old-fashioned, informal)", "examples": [] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "used to give an amount, a measurement, etc. using older or more traditional units that may be more familiar to some people", "labels": "(British English, informal)", "examples": [ { "text": "The fish measured 29 centimetres (that's a foot in old money)." } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "money that is earned very easily, for something that needs little effort", "labels": "(British English, informal)", "examples": [ { "text": "The job only took about an hour—it was money for old rope." } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "an older person who behaves in a stupid way is worse than a younger person who does the same thing, because experience should have taught him or her not to do it", "labels": "(saying)", "examples": [] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "in or since past times", "labels": "(formal or literary)", "examples": [ { "text": "in days of old" }, { "text": "We know him of old *(= we have known him for a long time)*." } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "used by older men of the middle and upper classes as a friendly way of addressing another man", "labels": "(old-fashioned, British English, informal)", "examples": [] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "very much older than somebody (especially used to suggest that a romantic or sexual relationship between the two people is not appropriate)", "labels": "(disapproving)", "examples": [] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "old enough to behave in a more sensible way than you actually did", "examples": [] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "used to describe a young person who acts in a more sensible way than you would expect for a person of their age", "examples": [] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "what usually happens", "examples": [ { "text": "It's the same old story of a badly managed project with inadequate funding." } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "an old idea or belief that people now know is not correct", "labels": "(disapproving)", "examples": [] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "an old-fashioned person who likes to do things as they were done in the past", "examples": [] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "an age that is considered to be very old", "examples": [ { "text": "He lived to the ripe old age of 91." } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "to hurt or punish somebody who has harmed or cheated you in the past", "examples": [ { "text": "‘Who would do such a thing?’ ‘Maybe someone with an old score to settle.’" }, { "text": "An embittered Charlotte is determined to settle accounts with Elizabeth." } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "(you cannot) successfully make people change their ideas, methods of work, etc., when they have had them for a long time", "labels": "(saying)", "examples": [] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "very strong and able to deal successfully with difficult conditions or situations", "examples": [ { "text": "She’s almost 90 but she’s still as tough as old boots." } ] } ], "pronunciations": { "uk": [ { "pronunciation": "/əʊld/", "audio": "ol/old/old__gb_3.mp3" } ], "us": [ { "pronunciation": "/əʊld/", "audio": "ol/old/old__us_1.mp3" } ] }, "wordOrigin": "Old English ald, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch oud and German alt, from an Indo-European root meaning ‘adult’, shared by Latin alere ‘nourish’." }