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Care for the old should be available for free, as in Scotland.

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  1. adjective Having lived or existed for a relatively long time; far advanced in years or life.
  2. adjective Relatively advanced in age: Pamela is our oldest child.
  3. adjective Made long ago; in existence for many years: an old book.
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  • However, the one challenging difference between the new and the old is a lack of trimmed edges. —  SF Quarterly
  • Some people believe that the old should be allowed to die, happily if possible. —  The Maine Massacre - Janwillem van de Wetering - Grijpstra-de Gier 07
  • Why the new Russia is so like the old is a question implicit in Richard Pipes ' —  Stromata Blog
  • Care for the old should be available for free, as in Scotland. —  This is Money | Home
  • Citizens Union (whose sister organization, Citizens Union Foundation, publishes Gotham Gazette) plans to issue a report in the coming weeks that discusses the importance of reforming how elections are run and a departure from what it characterizes as the old way of voting. —  Gotham Gazette: New York City News and Public Policy
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  1. Middle English, from Old English eald; see al-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Also dial. ald, auld, oud, aud; from Middle English old, ald, eld, from Anglo-Saxon eald, Old Northumbrian ald = Old Saxon ald = OFries. old, ald = Dutch oud = Middle Low German Low German ald, old = Old High German Middle High German G. alt = Icelandic ald-(in comp.) (also aldinn) = Gothic (Moesogothic) altheis, old; orig. past participle, ‘grown, increased’ (= Latin altus, high, deep), with suffix -d (see -d, -ed), of the verb represented by Gothic (Moesogothic) alan, nourish, = Latin alere, nourish, later ult. English aliment: see aliment, alt, etc. For the past participle suffix, cf. cold, of similar formation.
 

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