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AGE-OLD
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Dictionary entry overview: What does age-old mean?
• AGE-OLD (adjective)
The adjective AGE-OLD has 1 sense:
1. belonging to or lasting from times long ago
Familiarity information: AGE-OLD used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Belonging to or lasting from times long ago
Synonyms:
age-old; antique
Context example:
the antique fear that days would dwindle away to complete darkness
Similar:
old (of long duration; not new)
Context examples
Dr Mujcic said he used data from the annual Household, Income, and Labour Dynamics Australia (HILDA) Survey to answer the age-old questions – are fruit and vegetables good for us?
(Fruit and veggies pave the road to happiness, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
These age-old lakes have long tolerated the presence of humans, supporting some of the earliest known settlements and playing key roles in our cultural evolution and development, state Stephanie Hampton, a limnologist (lake scientist) at Washington State University.
(Ancient lakes: eyes into the past, and the future, National Science Foundation)
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