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adjective- belonging to some prior time
"erstwhile friend"; "our former glory"; "the once capital of the state"; "her quondam lover"
erstwhile former old onetime one-time quondam sometime
- (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"
honest-to-god honest-to-goodness old sure-enough
- of long duration; not new
"old tradition"; "old house"; "old wine"; "old country"; "old friendships"; "old money"
old
- (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?"
old
- skilled through long experience
"an old offender"; "the older soldiers"
old older
- (used for emphasis) very familiar
"good old boy"; "same old story"
old
- just preceding something else in time or order
"the previous owner"; "my old house was larger"
previous old
noun- past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old')
old
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