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1 old maid
(an unmarried woman who is past the usual age of marriage.) fată bătrână -
2 old
[əuld]1) (advanced in age: an old man; He is too old to live alone.) bătrân2) (having a certain age: He is thirty years old.) în vârstă de3) (having existed for a long time: an old building; Those trees are very old.) vechi4) (no longer useful: She threw away the old shoes.) învechit5) (belonging to times long ago: old civilizations like that of Greece.) străvechi•- old age- old boy/girl
- old-fashioned
- old hand
- old maid
- the old
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old-maid — old maid·ish·ness; old maid·ish·ly; … English syllables
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