age-old
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| age-old or age-long | |
| —adj | |
| very old or of long duration; ancient | |
| age-long or age-long | |
| —adj | |
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Age-old
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
Example sentences
Many have attempted to answer this age-old question, but none has succeeded.
Prehistoric creatures left seemingly endless proof of their existence fossilized in age-old rocks.
Modern nationalism and industrialization overlie the age-old ethnocentrism.
He loved the age-old mysteries surrounding the nature of matter, time and space at the heart of cosmology and metaphysics.
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