• noun:   past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old')
• adjective:   of long duration; not new

  Example: "Old tradition"

• adjective:   (used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age; especially not young; often used as a combining form to indicate an age as specified as in `a week-old baby'

  Example: "An old man's eagle mind--William Butler Yeats"

• adjective:   lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new
• adjective:   of an earlier time

  Example: "His old classmates"

• adjective:   of a very early stage in development

  Example: "Old English is also called Anglo Saxon"

• adjective:   old in experience

  Example: "An old offender"

• adjective:   just preceding something else in time or order

  Example: "My old house was larger"

• name:  A surname (rare: 1 in 100000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #12553)

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