adj.
1 age
VERBS
▪ be , feel , look , seem
▪
You are as ~ as you feel.
ADVERB
▪ enough
▪
He's ~ enough by now to manage his own affairs.
PHRASES
▪ six months, ten years, etc. ~
2 not young
VERBS
▪ be , feel , look , seem , sound
▪
The way the young people rushed around made her feel ~.
▪
He was beginning to look ~.
▪ become , get , grow
▪
We're all getting older.
▪
As they grow older, they develop new interests.
ADVERB
▪ extremely , fairly , very , etc.
▪
She was fairly ~ when she got married.
3 not new
VERBS
▪ be
ADVERB
▪ extremely , fairly , very , etc.
▪
It's a very ~ tradition.
PHRASES
▪ oldest known
▪
These are some of the oldest known fossil remains.
▪ oldest remaining , oldest surviving
▪
It's one of the oldest remaining parts of the church.
▪
the world's oldest surviving ship
4 shows affection/lack of respect
PHRASES
▪ boring ~ , silly ~ ( esp. BrE )
▪
boring ~ history books
▪
He's a silly ~ fool!
▪ dear ~ , good ~
▪
Good ~ Dad!
▪ funny ~
▪
It's a funny ~ world.
▪ plain ~
▪
Why drink plain ~ water when you can have something better?
▪ poor ~
▪
You poor ~ thing!
▪ same ~
▪
It's always the same ~ faces.
Old is used with these nouns: ↑ acquaintance , ↑ adversary , ↑ age , ↑ ally , ↑ armchair , ↑ associate , ↑ beam , ↑ boyfriend , ↑ building , ↑ cellar , ↑ chap , ↑ city , ↑ civilization , ↑ classic , ↑ cliché , ↑ client , ↑ clothes , ↑ convention , ↑ copy , ↑ couple , ↑ custom , ↑ customer , ↑ day , ↑ distinction , ↑ dogma , ↑ enemy , ↑ English , ↑ enmity , ↑ face , ↑ family , ↑ father , ↑ favourite , ↑ fellow , ↑ feud , ↑ foe , ↑ folk , ↑ fool , ↑ forest , ↑ friend , ↑ friendship , ↑ gag , ↑ garbage , ↑ girlfriend , ↑ grievance , ↑ ground , ↑ grudge , ↑ guy , ↑ habit , ↑ haunt , ↑ home , ↑ hotel , ↑ hymn , ↑ idea , ↑ injury , ↑ inn , ↑ joke , ↑ junk , ↑ lady , ↑ legend , ↑ magazine , ↑ male , ↑ man , ↑ manor , ↑ mansion , ↑ manuscript , ↑ maxim , ↑ memory , ↑ monastery , ↑ mother , ↑ mould , ↑ movie , ↑ mythology , ↑ nation , ↑ news , ↑ order , ↑ paint , ↑ people , ↑ person , ↑ photograph , ↑ ploy , ↑ prejudice , ↑ quarrel , ↑ quarter , ↑ rag , ↑ recipe , ↑ record , ↑ recording , ↑ regime , ↑ relative , ↑ religion , ↑ remedy , ↑ resentment , ↑ rhyme , ↑ rival , ↑ rivalry , ↑ road , ↑ romantic , ↑ routine , ↑ rubbish , ↑ ruin , ↑ rule , ↑ saying , ↑ self , ↑ shack , ↑ shoe , ↑ skill , ↑ slipper , ↑ slogan , ↑ sneaker , ↑ sock , ↑ soldier , ↑ soul , ↑ sparkle , ↑ spectre , ↑ stock , ↑ student , ↑ style , ↑ superstition , ↑ T-shirt , ↑ tale , ↑ tenement , ↑ thing , ↑ thinking , ↑ time , ↑ town , ↑ tradition , ↑ tree , ↑ trick , ↑ trunk , ↑ tune , ↑ tyre , ↑ uncle , ↑ variety , ↑ veteran , ↑ village , ↑ volume , ↑ warehouse , ↑ way , ↑ widow , ↑ wine , ↑ woman , ↑ world , ↑ wound