old in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

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I.old [Am oʊld, Brit əʊld] ADJ

1. old (of certain age):

how old are you?
¿cuántos años tienes?
how old are you?
¿qué edad tienes?
he's 10 years old
tiene 10 años
she's two years older than me
me lleva dos años
she's two years older than me
es dos años mayor que yo
my older brother
mi hermano mayor
our oldest son
nuestro hijo mayor
when the children are older
cuando los niños sean mayores or más grandes
day-/week-old chicks
pollitos mpl de un día/de una semana
a month-old puppy
un cachorro de un mes
the house is centuries old
la casa tiene siglos
my two-year-old daughter
mi hija de dos años
a group of fifteen-year-/six-year-olds
un grupo de quinceañeros/de niños de seis años
she's not old enough to go to school
no tiene edad de ir a la escuela
you're old enough to know better!
¡a tu edad …!
he's old enough to be her father
podría ser su padre
you're as old as you feel
lo importante es tener el espíritu joven

II.old [Am oʊld, Brit əʊld] N

day-old [Am ˈdeɪˌoʊld, Brit ˈdeɪəʊld] ADJ

I.old-fashioned [Am ˌoʊldˈfæʃənd, Brit əʊldˈfaʃ(ə)nd] ADJ

II.old-fashioned [Am ˌoʊldˈfæʃənd, Brit əʊldˈfaʃ(ə)nd] N U or C Am

old-established [Am ˌoʊldɪˈstæblɪʃt, Brit ˌəʊldɪˈstablɪʃt] ADJ attr

old codger [əʊld ˈkɒdʒə] N inf

old bean N Brit dated as form of address

old-line [ˈoʊldˌlaɪn] ADJ Am attr

old in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for old in the English»Spanish Dictionary

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I.old [əʊld, Am oʊld] ADJ

old-fashioned [ˌəʊldˈfæʃənd, Am ˌoʊld-] ADJ pej

old-style [ˌəʊldˈstaɪl, Am ˌoʊld-] ADJ

old-timer [ˌəʊldˈtaɪməʳ, Am ˈoʊldˌtaɪmɚ] N inf

old Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to be tough as old boots meat
estar más duro que una suela
at the ripe old age of 80
a la avanzada edad de 80
he's a chip off the old block inf
de tal palo, tal astilla
he/she is about seventy years old
anda rodando los setenta años
although he's old, he can still work
aunque es viejo, aún puede trabajar
to be as old as the hills
ser más viejo que la sarna inf
to be as old as the hills
ser más viejo que un palmar
this is as old as the hills
esto está más visto que el tebeo inf
to spend one's old age in Mallorca
pasar su vejez en Mallorca
there's no fool like an old fool prov
a la vejez, viruelas prov
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Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

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The old prison bakery was converted into the women's prison to accommodate this new role.
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Nobles accused him of trying to change the old ways, and even managed to find fault with the building codes.
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This is a celebration of what really can happen for every school in the country and beyond - every hospital, every old people's home, every business.
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In the 1993 currency reform, 1 nouveau zaire was exchanged for 3,000,000 old zaires.
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These witches have also been humorously referred to be spinsters who will end up there in order to escape from the old maid tax.
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Stu encounters a vault filled with money and an old cricket bat.
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How the actions involved in enactivism relate to age-old questions about free will remains a topic of active debate.
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The primary basis for eligibility was later changed to age, making the tournament open only to wrestlers who are 25 years old or younger.
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The movie evidently swerves from old-hat, cut-and-dried storylines that many scary movies offer.
entertainment.inquirer.net
If your five-year-old body and your seventy-year-old body consist of different matter, then what makes them the same body?
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