Usually means: Aged significantly beyond youthful stage.
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We found 46 dictionaries that define the word old:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. old: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. old, old: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. old: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. old: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Old, old: Vocabulary.com
  6. O'l'd, Old, o'l'd, old: Wordnik
  7. old, the old: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. 'old, old: Wiktionary
  9. old: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. old: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. old: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Old, -old, old, the old: Dictionary.com
  13. old: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. old: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. OLD (band), OLD, Old (Danny Brown album), Old (song), Old: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Old: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. old: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. old: Rhymezone
  19. old: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. old: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. OLD: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. OLD: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. old: Free Dictionary
  24. old: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. old: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. old: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. -old: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Coffee Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Old (surname), -old, old: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  2. Old (surname), -old, old: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. OLD: Acronym Finder
  2. -old, old: Idioms
  3. OLD: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. old: Nine Planets Glossary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. old, old: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. the old: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. O.L.D, Old: Bicycle Glossary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Coffee Terminology (No longer online)
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time.
adjective:  Of a living being, having lived for most of the expected years.
adjective:  Of a perishable item, having existed for most of, or more than, its shelf life.
adjective:  Of a species or language, belonging to a lineage that is distantly related others
adjective:  Having been used and thus no longer new or unused.
adjective:  Having existed or lived for the specified time.
adjective:  (heading) Of an earlier time.
adjective:  Former, previous.
adjective:  That is no longer in existence.
adjective:  Obsolete; out-of-date.
adjective:  Familiar.
adjective:  (UK) Being a graduate or alumnus of a school, especially a public school.
adjective:  Tiresome after prolonged repetition.
adjective:  Said of subdued colors, particularly reds, pinks and oranges, as if they had faded over time.
adjective:  A grammatical intensifier, often used in describing something positive, and combined with another adjective.
adjective:  (informal, of a person) Indicating affection and familiarity.
adjective:  Designed for a mature audience; unsuitable for children below a certain age.
adjective:  (obsolete) Excessive, abundant.
noun:  (with the, invariable plural only) People who are old; old beings; the older generation, taken as a group.
noun:  (slang) A person older than oneself, especially an adult in relation to a teenager.
noun:  (slang, most often plural) One's parents.
noun:  (Australia, uncountable) A typically dark-coloured lager brewed by the traditional top-fermentation method.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, England, previously in Daventry district (OS grid ref SP7873).
noun:  (publishing, linguistics) Initialism of Oxford Latin Dictionary.
noun:  (Internet) Abbreviation of online dating. [Dating over the Internet, typically using a website or app to find potential connections.]

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