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1 old
[əuld]1) (advanced in age: an old man; He is too old to live alone.) gamall2) (having a certain age: He is thirty years old.) gamall3) (having existed for a long time: an old building; Those trees are very old.) gamall4) (no longer useful: She threw away the old shoes.) gamall, notaður5) (belonging to times long ago: old civilizations like that of Greece.) forn•- old age- old boy/girl
- old-fashioned
- old hand
- old maid
- the old -
2 old-fashioned
adjective (in a style common some time ago: old-fashioned clothes; Her hairstyle is very old-fashioned.) gamaldags -
3 old age
(the later part of a person's life: He wrote most of his poems in his old age.) gamals aldur, elli -
4 old boy/girl
(a former pupil (of a school): The new prime minister is an old boy of our school.) fyrrverandi nemandi (í tilteknum skóla) -
5 old hand
(a person who is very experienced: He's an old hand at this sort of job.) gamall í hettunni, vanur -
6 old maid
(an unmarried woman who is past the usual age of marriage.) piparmey -
7 Old Testament
(the two main parts of the Bible.) testamenti -
8 old wives' tale
(a superstitious and misleading story.) kerlingabók, kredda, bábilja -
9 the old
(old people: hospitals for the old.) aldraðir -
10 eight-year-old
noun (a person or animal that is eight years old: Is this game suitable for an eight-year-old?) átta ára gamall -
11 ripe (old) age
(a very old age: He lived to the ripe (old) age of ninety-five.) gamalsaldur -
12 ripe (old) age
(a very old age: He lived to the ripe (old) age of ninety-five.) gamalsaldur -
13 age-old
adjective (done, known etc for a very long time: an age-old custom.) aldagamall, ævaforn -
14 eighteen-year-old
noun He is married to an eighteen-year-old.) átján ára gamall -
15 eighty-year-old
noun a lively eighty-year-old.) áttatíu ára gamall, áttræður -
16 eleven-year-old
noun (a person or animal that is eleven years old.) ellefu ára gamall -
17 fifteen-year-old
noun (a person or animal that is fifteen years old.) fimmtán ára gamall -
18 fifty-year-old
noun (a person or animal that is fifty years old.) fimmtíu ára gamall -
19 forty-year-old
noun, adjective ((a person or animal) that is forty years old.) fjörutíu ára gamall -
20 four-year-old
noun (a person or animal that is four years old.) fjögurra ára gamall
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old — W1S1 [əuld US ould] adj comparative older superlative oldest ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(not new)¦ 2¦(not young)¦ 3¦(age)¦ 4¦(that you used to have)¦ 5¦(familiar)¦ 6¦(very well known)¦ 7 the old days 8 … Dictionary of contemporary English
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