eld

Examples

• All

• Your eld'st acquaintance cannot be three hours;

  Prospero's Books (1991)

• - He's here... ...on mid-world... ...looking for an old friend of mine, Roland of eld.

  The Dark Tower (2017)

• Last of the line of eld.

  The Dark Tower (2017)

• - Seriously, the eld...

  80 for Brady (2023)

• But Stapes uses the Eld Vintic name for them: calanthis.

  Blog text (24)

• We've had trainers for language arts, you know, reading, writing, math, ELD, all these different academic things, so it's a great idea, and I think that the district should train as many teachers in PE as possible.

  Academic text (2010)

• SEALS, ELD, Army Delta...

  G.I. Jane (1997)

• The stories of the ancient heroes have been passed down through eld.

• She looked back fondly on her youth, aware that her eld was approaching.

Synonyms

A

age

vseld

665 1.0

The later time in life when a person is old

is an older, archaic form rather than this common neutral label

O

old age

vseld

109 2.0

The later part of life after middle age when people often retire and may lose strength

is the archaic word for that life stage rather than the modern term

R

ripe old age

vseld

10 2.7

An age when someone has lived for a very long time

is an archaic, general term not limited to positive long-lived sense

O

oldness

vseld

1 4.0

How long a person or thing has been around

is an archaic word for human later life rather than general longevity

A

agedness

vseld

• Archaic

8.7

The state of being old in people or things

is the archaic term for the life period rather than a noun for the state

How Old

eld

• Archaic

1 9.9

middle age

10 2.2

adulthood

61 3.1

youth

164 1.0

childhood

687 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology