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Definition of Age-old
1. Adjective. Belonging to or lasting from times long ago. "The antique fear that days would dwindle away to complete darkness"
Definition of Age-old
1. Adjective. very old; having existed for a long time; ancient or well-established ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Age-old
Literary usage of Age-old
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Great Ice Age and Its Relation to the Antiquity of Man by James Geikie (1894)
"... interglacial, and postglacial age —Old course of the River Avon, Lanarkshire—Preglacial
courses of the Calder Waterand Tillon Burn—Buried river-channel ..."
2. The world's wit and humor: an encyclopedia of the classic wit and humor of by Lionel Strachey (1906)
"The failure of the digestive organs is also due to old age. Old Man. ...
This trouble is merely the consequence of old age. Old Man. ..."
3. The Cyclopædia of Practical Quotations: English and Latin, with an Appendix by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward (1882)
"Of Youth and Age. Old age comes on apace to ravage all the clime. j. ... Old Age.
Old age is courteous—no one more : For time after time he knocks at the ..."
4. Parks: Their Design, Equipment and Use by George Burnap (1916)
"There are age-old monuments which circumstance has surrounded with mystery.
These exceptions merge harmoniously with naturalistic surroundings JOAN D'ARC, ..."
5. Social Welfare and the Liquor Problem: Studies in the Sources of the Problem by Harry Sheldon Warner (1913)
"The age-old Heritage.—Intemperance itself took its root in human experience long
before men were capable of interpreting or even of recording their own ..."
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