{
    "term": "old",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjectivenoun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "of a particular age",
            "sensetop": "be… years, months, etc. old",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The baby was only a few hours old.",
                    "contextForm": "be… years, months, etc. old"
                },
                {
                    "text": "In those days most people left school when they were only fifteen years old."
                },
                {
                    "text": "At thirty years old, he was already earning £40 000 a year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "two fourteen-year-old boys"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a class for five-year-olds *(= children who are five)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I didn't think she was **old enough** for the responsibility."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He's not **too old** to play Romeo."
                },
                {
                    "text": "**How old** is this building?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He's the oldest player in the team."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's much older than me."
                },
                {
                    "text": "My two older sisters and I shared a bedroom."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He's old enough by now to manage his own affairs."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You are as old as you feel."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "feel", "look"],
                "adverb": ["enough"],
                "phrases": ["six months, ten years, etc. old"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "having lived for a long time; no longer young",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "to **get/grow old**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The old man lay propped up on cushions."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a little old lady"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was a woman grown **old before her time** *(= who looked older than she was)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was beginning to **look old**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Tom was the last surviving member of the older generation of the family."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We were fairly old when we bought our first house."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The way the young people rushed about made her feel old."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's getting old—she's 75 next year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We're all getting older."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Life stages"],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "feel", "look"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "old people",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The old feel the cold more than the young."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "having existed or been used for a long time",
            "labels": "British English",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "old habits"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He always gives the **same old** excuses."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This carpet's getting pretty old now."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a beautiful old farmhouse"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's a very old tradition."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's one of the oldest remaining parts of the church."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's the world's oldest surviving ship."
                },
                {
                    "text": "These are some of the oldest trees in the world."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
                "phrases": ["oldest known", "oldest remaining", "oldest surviving"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "former; belonging to past times or a past time in your life",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Things were different in **the old days**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I went back to visit my old school."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Old and Middle English"
                },
                {
                    "text": "People are still clinging to the old ways of thinking."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "used to refer to something that has been replaced by something else",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We had more room in our old house."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Mum and Dad bought us a fridge and gave us their old telly."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 7,
            "definition": "known for a long time",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She's an **old friend** of mine *(= I have known her for a long time)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We're old rivals."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's always the same old faces."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The album includes both new titles and old favourites."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 8,
            "definition": "used to show kind feelings or a lack of respect",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "**Good old** Dad!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "You **poor old** thing!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I don't want to read that stupid old book anyway."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's a funny old world."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Why drink plain old water when you can have something better?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They were having the same boring old conversation about school."
                },
                {
                    "text": "As my dear old Grandma used to say…"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "phrases": ["boring old", "silly old", "dear old"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "any item of the type mentioned (used when it is not important which particular item is chosen)",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Any old room would have done."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "in a careless or untidy way",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The books were piled up all over the floor any old how."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "very old; ancient",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to be behaving in the same bad way as before",
            "labels": "(informal, disapproving)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He had soon spent all the money and was up to his old tricks."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a person who is very similar to their mother or father in the way that they look or behave",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "if you do something for old times’ sake, you do it because it is connected with something good that happened to you in the past",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to dismiss somebody from their job; to end a relationship with somebody",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "an earlier period of time in your life or in history that is seen as better/worse than the present",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "That was in the bad old days of rampant inflation."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a great age",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She finally learned to drive at the grand old age of 70."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a man who is respected in a particular profession that he has been involved in for a long time",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "James Lovelock, the grand old man of environmental science"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to enjoy yourself very much",
            "labels": "(old-fashioned, informal)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to give an amount, a measurement, etc. using older or more traditional units that may be more familiar to some people",
            "labels": "(British English, informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The fish measured 29 centimetres (that's a foot in old money)."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "money that is earned very easily, for something that needs little effort",
            "labels": "(British English, informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The job only took about an hour—it was money for old rope."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "an older person who behaves in a stupid way is worse than a younger person who does the same thing, because experience should have taught him or her not to do it",
            "labels": "(saying)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "in or since past times",
            "labels": "(formal or literary)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "in days of old"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We know him of old *(= we have known him for a long time)*."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used by older men of the middle and upper classes as a friendly way of addressing another man",
            "labels": "(old-fashioned, British English, informal)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "very much older than somebody (especially used to suggest that a romantic or sexual relationship between the two people is not appropriate)",
            "labels": "(disapproving)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "old enough to behave in a more sensible way than you actually did",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to describe a young person who acts in a more sensible way than you would expect for a person of their age",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "what usually happens",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "It's the same old story of a badly managed project with inadequate funding."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "an old idea or belief that people now know is not correct",
            "labels": "(disapproving)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "an old-fashioned person who likes to do things as they were done in the past",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "an age that is considered to be very old",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He lived to the ripe old age of 91."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to hurt or punish somebody who has harmed or cheated you in the past",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "‘Who would do such a thing?’ ‘Maybe someone with an old score to settle.’"
                },
                {
                    "text": "An embittered Charlotte is determined to settle accounts with Elizabeth."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "(you cannot) successfully make people change their ideas, methods of work, etc., when they have had them for a long time",
            "labels": "(saying)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "very strong and able to deal successfully with difficult conditions or situations",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She’s almost 90 but she’s still as tough as old boots."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əʊld/",
                "audio": "ol/old/old__gb_3.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əʊld/",
                "audio": "ol/old/old__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English ald, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch oud and German alt, from an Indo-European root meaning ‘adult’, shared by Latin alere ‘nourish’."
}