of long duration; not new; "old tradition"; "old house"; "old wine"; "old country"; "old friendships"; "old money"
(used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age; "his mother is very old"; "a ripe old age"; "how old are you?"
just preceding something else in time or order; "the previous owner"; "my old house was larger" पर्याय: previous,
skilled through long experience; "an old offender"; "the older soldiers" पर्याय: older,
(used for emphasis) very familiar; "good old boy"; "same old story"
(used informally especially for emphasis); "a real honest-to-god live cowboy"; "had us a high old time"; "went upriver to look at a sure-enough fish wheel" पर्याय: honest-to-god, honest-to-goodness, sure-enough,
belonging to some prior time; "erstwhile friend"; "our former glory"; "the once capital of the state"; "her quondam lover" पर्याय: erstwhile, former, onetime, one-time, quondam, sometime,
past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old'')