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- US Pronunciation
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- [ohldz]
- /oʊldz/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [ohldz]
- /oʊldz/
Definitions of olds word
- noun olds (used with a plural verb) old persons collectively (usually preceded by the): appropriations to care for the old. 1
- noun olds a person or animal of a specified age or age group (used in combination): a class for six-year-olds; a horse race for three-year-olds. 1
- noun olds old or former time, often time long past: days of old. 1
- adjective olds far advanced in the years of one's or its life: an old man; an old horse; an old tree. 1
- adjective olds of or relating to the latter part of the life or term of existence of a person or thing: old age. 1
- adjective olds as if or appearing to be far advanced in years: Worry had made him old. 1
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Origin of olds
First appearance:
before 900 One of the 4% oldest English words
before 900; Middle English; Old English eald, ald; cognate with Dutch old, German alt, Gothic altheis; akin to Old Norse ala to nourish
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Parts of speech for Olds
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olds popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 86% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
olds usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for olds
noun olds
adjective olds
- ancients — Plural form of ancient.
- grays — Plural form of gray.
- fossils — any remains, impression, or trace of a living thing of a former geologic age, as a skeleton, footprint, etc.
- geriatrics — Slang. an old person.
- childhoods — Plural form of childhood.
Antonyms for olds
noun olds
- innovations — The action or process of innovating.
- modernisms — Plural form of modernism.
adjective olds
- currents — Plural form of current.
- greens — of the color of growing foliage, between yellow and blue in the spectrum: green leaves.
- contemporaries — existing, occurring, or living at the same time; belonging to the same time: Newton's discovery of the calculus was contemporary with that of Leibniz.
- moderns — Plural form of modern.
- presents — being, existing, or occurring at this time or now; current: increasing respect for the present ruler of the small country.