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Definition: Age-old |
Age-oldAdjective1. Belonging to or lasting from times long ago; "age-old customs"; "the antique fear that days would dwindle away to complete darkness". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "age-old" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1901. (references) |
Synonym: Age-oldSynonym: antique (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Age-old |
| English words defined with "age-old": brash ♦ cheeky ♦ nervy. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "age-old": tunafish. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Age-Old Friends (1989) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Electrical stimulation, including transcutaneous electrical stimulation (TENS), implanted electric nerve stimulation, and deep brain or spinal cord stimulation, is the modern-day extension of age-old practices in which the nerves of muscles are subjected to a variety of stimuli, including heat or massage. (references) | |
Travel | Qatar | In recent years, Qataris have been giving up their age-old tradition of hosting ceremonial dinners at home. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | We wanted to accomplish great things and solve age-old problems. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | The decade ahead will be a time of rapid change, as nations everywhere seek to deal with new problems and age-old tensions. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Up to man's age-old dream-the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Age-old" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Age-old" is used about 138 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 138 | 27,024 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "age-old"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i lashtë (ancient, antique, early, grey, grey headed, Hoar, hoary, old, old world, primaeval, primeval, primordial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | عتيق (ancient, fossil, hoary, musty, old, old fashioned, out of date, passe, prim, superannuated, time honored, time worn, used). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | вековен (century-old, eternal, immemorial, primaeval, secular), древен (ancient, archaic, hoary, old, old world, olden, pristine, venerable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 古老 (Ancient). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | prastarý (immemorial, secular). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | eeuwenoud. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | antique, ancestral. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | uralt (aged, ancient, hoary, immemorial, very old, vintage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | õsrégi (immemorial, world old). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | antico (ancient, antique, bygone, early, old, olden). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | age-olday antiquíssimo (immense). (various references) secular (ancient, century-old, lay, secular, time honored, time-honoured). (various references) вековой (secular). (various references) jednogodišnji (age long, annual, yearling). (various references) antiguo (abecedarian, ancient, antique, archaic, former, late, long standing, old, old world, old-established, ole, out of date, quondam, used, vintage), secular (secular). (various references) uråldrig (ancient, extremely old). (various references) asırlık (agelong, centenarian, centenary, centuries old), çok eski (ancient, antediluvian, dateless, old world, remote). (various references) старезний (advanced, ancient, antiquated, antique, decrepit, prehistoric, prehistorical, senile, winterly, wintry), старий (advanced, aged, ancient, auld, back, decrepit, dilapidated, grey headed, hoary, moth-eaten, old, old-aged, olden, ole, superannuated, used), віковий (age long), одвічний (age long, archetypal, dateless, primordial, secular, unbegun, uncaused). (various references) lâu đời (old-established, secularly, world-old). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Age-old" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ageold. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: gaoled, goaled. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-l-o" | |
-1 letter: glade, lodge, ogled. | |
-2 letters: aged, aloe, dago, dale, deal, doge, dole, egad, egal, gaed, gale, gaol, geld, glad, gled, goad, goal, gold, lade, lead, load, lode, loge, odea, ogle, olea. | |
-3 letters: ado, age, ago, ale, dag, dal, del, doe, dog, dol, ego, eld, gad, gae, gal, ged, gel, goa, god, lad, lag, lea, led, leg, log, ode, old, ole. | |
-4 letters: ad, ae, ag, al, de, do, ed, el, go, la, lo, od, oe. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-l-o" | |
+1 letter: decalog, galoped, geoidal, gloated. | |
+2 letters: anglepod, collaged, decalogs, dialoged, dialoger, dialogue, foliaged, galloped, galopade, galoshed, gamboled, gatefold, gladsome, globated, goadlike, headlong, idealogy, longhead, overglad. | |
+3 letters: alongside, anglepods, cataloged, clangored, coleading, congealed, decalogue, delegator, dialogers, dialogued, dialogues, dodgeball, elongated, floodgate, gallopade, galopades, gambolled, gargoyled, gasholder, gatefolds, genocidal, girandole, gladsomer, gladstone, glamoured, idealogue, logaoedic, longheads, obligated, outglared, reloading. | |
+4 letters: analogized, apologised, apologized, backlogged, beglamored, catalogued, clangoured, coagulated, colligated, cradlesong, decalogues, delegation, delegators, desolating, dodgeballs, floodgates, gadolinite, gallopades, gasholders, geodetical, girandoles, gladsomely, gladsomest, gladstones, glamorised, glamorized, globalised, globalized, goaltender, goldenseal, idealogies, idealogues, intaglioed, logaoedics, loggerhead, longhaired, longheaded, nonaligned, oldfangled, outlaughed, overlading, sloganized. | |
+5 letters: acknowledge, allegorised, allegorized, allografted, audiologies, beglamoured, camouflaged, conglobated, cradlesongs, dangerously, deadlocking, decollating, decolletage, defoliating, deglamorize, delegations, dermatology, diagnosable, diagonalize, dovetailing, dragonflies, freeloading, gadolinites, galactoside, ganglioside, gladioluses, glamourized, glucosidase, glycosidase, goaltenders, goaltending, goldenseals, grandiosely, halogenated, holographed, homologated, ideological, leapfrogged, loggerheads, lollygagged, medicolegal, nondelegate, overloading, pedagogical, pedological, polygamized, promulgated, radiologies, sloganeered, sockdolager, uncataloged, waterlogged. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 67 65 2D 6F 6C 64 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100111 01100101 00101101 01101111 01101100 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A g e - o l d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0067 0065 002D 006F 006C 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35737115817870 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Quotations: Speeches 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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