age-old
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4.2
- adjective
- /ˈeɪdʒˌoʊld/
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ancestral
- Many age-old traditions are celebrated during the winter holidays.
- an age-old question
- an age-old problem
- an age-old quest
I gather you here to answer the age-old question.
- I gather you here to answer the age-old question.
- Ladies, there's this age-old conversation around women in business, right?
- Because these other things are these like very age-old psychological principles.
- To illustrate that point, I'm going to tell the story of the age-old rabbit and turtle.
- And there's the age-old adage of a healthy man wants many things, but a sick man wants only one.
- And if you look around the world, you'll see this age-old argument about power playing out in more places than ever before.
- But once again, in that Q&A;, the age-old question of why don't they change, come up, or rather, can they change narcissistic pattern?
- There comes a point in the essay where Friedrich Nietzsche is going to ask this age-old question, one that has bedeviled so many people.
- And when I say that, it's because if you take that money, and this is like an age-old theme, you take that money and you basically don't save it.
- He tried to impose doctrines on the church in order to resolve the age-old Monophysite question.
- And, and and it's that it's that age-old advice people give you in in management training, how to conduct a meeting.
- So if, if I'm fumbling over a age-old technology, I apologise for that.
Examples
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My fellow citizens, this mission will travel clear across the cosmos... where we hope to finally answer the age-old question: "Is there intelligent life out there?"
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I think I've found a solution to an age-old problem.
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Think of it as an age-old process.
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I think I made the age-old mistake: "Never trust a beautiful woman."
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This next act answers the age-old question.
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Families can finally obtain an answer to the age-old question: "What did you learn in school today?"
Academic text (2012) -
And so she fell back upon the age-old cry of parents everywhere, in every generation.
Fiction book (1999) -
I gather you here to answer the age-old question.
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We're dealing here with the age-old conflict between reason and emotion.
Academic text (2011) -
Making choices about the depth and breadth of a curriculum is an age-old problem.
Academic text (1994)
Synonyms
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3.4
Very old and from a long time ago
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1.5
Following long-held customs and ways of doing things
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6.1
Relating to a very early stage in a language, period, or culture
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4.3
Lasting for a long time
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7.5
Worthy of deep respect because of old age or good character
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4.7
Valued and kept because people have done it for a long time
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6.7
Like music or clothes from a past time that feel warm and familiar
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9.6
From a time long ago when life was different
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7.2
Beliefs and ways that people in a family or group keep for a long time
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9.9
Exists for a very long time, often about traditions, stories, or ideas
Antonyms
How Old
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word age-old is made from the simple parts age and old, so it literally means 'from a long time ago' or 'very old'. That's why we call traditions, questions, or fears age-old when they have lasted for a very long time.